The book Historical Essay On the Art of Bookbinding was written by author Pène Du Bois, Henri, 1858-1906 Here you can read free online of Historical Essay On the Art of Bookbinding book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Historical Essay On the Art of Bookbinding a good or bad book?
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In his attractive little book on "The Home Library," Mr. Arthur Penn says justly that "it is well also not to begrudge money for a fine piece of work ; " but how very few appreciate the fact who are otherwise prodigal in their admiration of the fine arts. It would be interesting to look into the comparative value of fine binding in different centuries. The work of the ancients was painstaking in the extreme; the time that it took scarcely less than the writing and illuminating of a missal; but ...their for- warding was not as .good as is that of modern book- binders. This desideratum is noticeably appreciated by the artists of the United States, wherefore the American bibliophiles entrust to them the work that 38 HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE they were wont to send to European bookbinders, in spite of the most vexatious delays. Assuredly, fostered and encouraged, American bookbinders are to attain the highest niche in the temple. A writer in the " Miscellanees Bibliographiques," Jean Poche, has given a copy of an account of the binder Duseuil, in which twelve volumes of the second tome of the Manuscripts of the Library of the King, bound in morocco, with gold filigree and >the royal coat-of-arms, are quoted at 30 livres each, and the writer of the article adds a note to the effect that the director of the Imprimerie Royale reduced the price to 25 francs.
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