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He loves Greek gems, and Persian carpets, and Elizabethan translations of Cupid and Psyche, and the Hypnerotomachia, and book-binding and early editions, and wide- margined proofs. He is keenly sensitive to the value of beautiful surroundings, and never wearies of describing to us the rooms in which he lived, or would have liked to live.
Her niece, Duchesse d'E., had quite another "installation" in one of the windows a table with all sorts of delicate little instruments. She was book-binding doing quite lovely things in imitation of the old French binding. It was a work that required most delicate manipulation, but she seemed to do it quite easily.
"I went into book-binding. It's quite the fad, you know. Some society women take it up for diversion, but I didn't like it." "Were you in a hospital? Did your people know? Were you properly cared for?" Each question that she asked came with a little sharper note of irritation. "Yes. Oh, yes. I was properly cared for. I was in a private room. I have loyal friends here."
This is done by screwing it firmly in a cutting-machine, which works a sharp knife rapidly, shaving off the edges successively of the head, front and end, or "tail" as it is called in book-binding parlance. This trimming used to be done by hand, with a sharp cutting knife called by binders a "plough."
Thus a book, clothed in morocco, is not a mere piece of mechanism, but a vehicle in which the intellectual life of writers no longer on earth is transmitted from age to age. And it is the art of book-binding which renders libraries possible. What the author, the printer, and the binder create, the library takes charge of and preserves.
In fact, elegant book-binding is coming to be recognized as one of the foremost of the decorative arts. The art of designing book-covers and patterns for gilding books has engaged the talents of many artists, among whom may be named Edwin A. Abbey, Howard Pyle, Stanford White, and Elihu Vedder. Nor have skilful designs been wanting among women, as witness Mrs.
Her voice trembled as if with some physical pain; he only answered by a sound of incredulous surprise. 'I'll tell ye the whole on't, Johnnie. Ye sees, we lived i' Yarm mother and me. Mother, she sewed books fur a book-binding man; an' we'd a little coming in as father'd saved.
Shortly after, learning became much cherished; literary men rose to dignities and honor, and colleges were endowed in different parts of the empire. Types had been invented some time in the early part of the ninth century, and the art of book-binding was known as early as A. D. 750.
A. G. Ellis on May 8th, Burton enquires respecting some engravings in the Museum brought over from Italy by the Duke of Cumberland, and he finished humorously with, "What news of Mr. Blumhardt? And your fellow-sufferer from leather emanations, the Sanskiritist?" an allusion to the Oriental Room, under which, in those days, was the book-binding department. Mr. Letchford, August and September 1889.
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