Bookbindings Old and New: Notes of a Book-lover, with an Account of the Grolier Club of New York

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Macmillan and Company, 1895 - 342 頁
Seperately bound excerpt from the larger work; hand written title page.

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第 126 頁 - THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG. and the Fall of the Niblungs.
第 319 頁 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
第 294 頁 - Its object shall be the literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books, including the occasional publication of books designed to illustrate, promote and encourage those arts...
第 271 頁 - Summer fading, winter comes — Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books.
第 237 頁 - The publisher knows that we want our literature (or what passes for that) in light array. In the winter -we prefer the boards and the rich heavy binding, however light the tale may be ; but in the summer, though the fiction be as grave and tragic as wandering love and bankruptcy, we would have it come to us lightly clad — out of stays, as it were.
第 333 頁 - CATALOGUE OF BOOKS from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past, with Arms or Devices upon the Bindings.
第 219 頁 - Fletcher back to light. In red morocco drest he loves to boast The bloody murder, or the yelling ghost ; Or dismal ballads, sung to crowds of old, Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold. Yet to th' unhonour'd dead be salite just ; Some flow'rs "smell sweet and blossom in their dust." 'Tis thus ev'n Shirley boasts a golden line, And Lovelace strikes, by fits, a note divine. Th' unequal gleams like midnight-lightnings play, And deepen'd gloom succeeds, in place of day.
第 172 頁 - Not as ours the books of old — Things that steam can stamp and fold ; Not as ours the books of yore — • Rows of type and nothing more. Then a book was still a Book, Where a wistful man might look, Finding something through the whole, Beating like a human soul. In that growth of day by day, When to...
第 240 頁 - To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration ; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it.
第 314 頁 - A Decree of Starre-Chamber, concerning Printing, Made the eleventh day of July last past. 1637.

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