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 163
with smaller bosses or buttons upon thecorners, was also used to protect the gilding from abrasion. On the cheaper books, bound in hog-skin, ironcorners and a closely setstudding of round-head-ed iron nails were usedfor the same purpose.To prevent the coversfrom warping outward,two clasps of brass… … A Sumptuously Bound Book.1 [From Chambers.] safety of the book and the convenience of the reader, it wasnecessary that the book should be laid on an inclined deskor a revolving lecturn, provided with a ledge for holding itup and with holdfasts for keeping down the leaves. Thelecturn was really…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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