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A short history of bookbinding and a glossary of styles and terms used in binding, with a brief account of the celebrated binders and patrons of bookbinding from whom the various styles are named, description of leathers, etc (1895)

Zaehnsdorf (Firm), Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William, 1853-1930 · London : Printed at the Chiswick press · leaf 10

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A SHORT HISTORY OFBOOKBINDING. ;GOKBINDING carries us back to thetime when leaden tablets with inscribedhieroglyphics were fastened together withrings, which formed what to us wouldbe the binding of the volumes. We might go even stillfurther back, when tiles of baked clay with cuneiformcharacters…

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