The Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-tooled BindingsKegan Paul, Trench, Trub ̈ner & Company, Limited, 1894 - 224 oldal |
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194. oldal - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
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32. oldal - It consists in one hundred and seventy volumes, for the most part folios, dating from the end of the fifteenth, and the first half of the sixteenth, century, and bound, for the most part, in dark pig-skin, with brass bosses and clasps.
13. oldal - They take divers oiled colours, and put them severally (in drops) upon water ; and stir the water lightly ; and then wet their paper (being of some thickness) with it; and the paper will be waved and veined, like chamolet or marble.
182. oldal - Amongst other articles of instruction and amusement, MR. FERRAR (senior) entertained an ingenions Book-irituUr, who taught the family, females as well as males, the whole art and skill of book-binding, gilding, lettering, and what they called pasting-printing, by the use of the rolling press.
199. oldal - Em-border'd with ERMINE expressive of The High Rank of the Noble Patroness of the Designs, the other Parts Finished in the most elegant Taste with small Tool Gold Borders Studded with Gold ; and small Tool Panes of the most exact Work.
182. oldal - He composed a full harmony, or concordance, of the four Evangelists, adorned with many beautiful pictures, which required more than a year for the composition, and was divided into 150 heads or chapters.
217. oldal - A CAUTION TO POETS WHAT poets feel not, when they make, A pleasure in creating, The world, in its turn, will not take Pleasure in contemplating.
26. oldal - ... given to the screw of the plough. If too much turn is given to the screw, the knife will bite too deeply into the paper and will tear instead of cutting it. If the knife has not been properly sharpened, or has a burr upon its edge, it will be certain to cause ridges on the paper. The top edge being cut, the book is taken out of the press and the tail is cut. A mark is made on the top of the hind or back board just double the size of the square, and the board is lowered until the mark is on a...
184. oldal - ... not his man, but himself would carry it : he knew it would be an acceptable service to his master ; and engaged his faith, that at the king's departure from Apthorpe, he would bring it again. But a quarter of a year past. Then came the gentleman again, but brought no book; but after much compliment said, the king so liked the work itself, and the contrivement of it in all kinds, that there had not a day passed, but the king, in the midst of all his progress and sports, spent one hour in the perusing...