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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 161

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under the stiffening sheet of the cover, and thebook was pressed. Sometimes the cover was made flexible by the omission of thestiffening sheet; some-times the edges of theleaves were protectedby flexible and over-hanging flaps whichwere made to projectover the covers; or bythe insertion in… … The Medieval Illuminator.■ mman. mostly app 1 iledJo smahbooks_juiended for the pocket: the workmanship was rough,but the binding was strong and serviceable. THE BOOK-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 155 Books of larger size, made for the lecturn, were bound upin boards—not an amalgamation of…

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