Bookbinding for Bibliophiles: Being Notes on Some Technical Features of the Well Bound Book for the Aid of Connoisseurs, Together With a Sketch of Gold Tooling, Ancient and Modern (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Bookbinding, neither is it a his tory of the craft. These fields have been covered ably by others. The appeal is to the collector and book lover - to those who love the book in its physical being, as an objet d'art, apart from the literary value of the thought expressed. The cult is ancient, and numbers now as of old its enthu siasts and its satirists. It has its own apologetics. The author is content to step aside from the controversy. Let us not take our bric-a-brac too serious ly, but stand ready to enjoy the humor of our folly, as well as its charm and its delight. The finely bound book is an article.

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