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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 23

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ding-edge. C i8 Glossary. When books were literal volumes or rolls, the way of binding them, if it could be so called, or at least of keepingthem together, was to unroll them from one cylinder and rolleach again, as it was perused, on another. When booksbecame separate folios the first method of… … Backing. palm leaves. The holding together of folios of a literary mansmanuscript by a small clasp at one edge is an essentially similardevice. The present method of binding seems to have beeninvented by or under Attains, King of Pergamus, or his sonEumenes, about 200 B.C. The oldest bound book…

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