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  _A Plaister for a galled Horse_,"[317] which Raynald printed in a little thin quarto volume of six or seven pages.


id: 30419
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  "A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, by


id: 30419
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  Quotations._--Noble Thoughts in Noble Language: a Collection of Wise and Virtuous Utterances in Prose


id: 22608
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  Politics, Economics, Sociology, Education, Ethics, Metaphysics, Mathematics, Military and Naval Science


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  | | | | ------------+---------+-------------+----------+--------+----------+------- SPECIFICATIONS FOR BOOKBINDING--(_continued


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id: 45417
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  ''And until the age of thirteen and three-quarters, could only walk sideways with my hair parted in the middle,''


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id: 14240
title: Reviews
author: Wilde, Oscar
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  Remembering the various arts which have yielded up their secrets to Mr. Wills, it is interesting to note in his poems, here the picturesque there is good work, and Caliban in East London has a great deal of power letters reveal to us not merely the life of a great novelist but the soul phrase; not, of course, a great poet but certainly an artist in poetry love''s sake--an old story, no doubt, but one which gains a new charm from predecessors in the same field, is not worthy of taking rank beside Mr. Morris''s, for here we have a true work of art, a rendering not merely of the author some day add meaning to his music he may give us a true work the facts of life is the true basis of all modern imitative art. I was talking the other day to a lady who works a great deal


id: 28540
title: Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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  book-collecting; and that Dean Colet[21] and his friend Sir Thomas madness of book-collecting rather increased--and the work of death manuscripts and printed books in the library of the French king, Louis printed volume upon the love and advantages of book-collecting was the mind--passionately addicted to rare and curious books--his library was Catalogue Raisonné of the early printed books in the library three copies upon LARGE PAPER) contains an account of books [Footnote 180: In a copy of this book, printed by Grafton in of English Printed Books_.[338] This little thin folio volume afforded title to the Catalogue of his Library.) His books were sold _large paper_ copy of a catalogue of his books, which, as well as the account of the books PRINTED UPON VELLUM in this collection, Large and Valuable Library of Printed Books, rare old first volume of this work, of which 200 copies were printed,


id: 28187
title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts
author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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  the history is a title written on the fly-leaf in the fifteenth century, written when the book came to Eton College. works, which the abbey libraries possessed in great numbers, and often sixth-century copy of the Book of Genesis, written in uncial letters and the book is called) do not give a set catalogue of his library, but Books are produced in considerable numbers in Italy, France, Spain; and Our libraries are crammed to-day with twelfth-century MSS. He got together a library of fine books, mostly recent I said, no catalogue, but there are many of its books in our libraries. library books, but rather properties of great ecclesiastics or nobles. books of the thirteenth century, well written and decorated. fourteenth-century catalogue of the books among the Harley MSS. I cannot doubt that among the books imported in the seventh century from fifteenth-century book, and the Theodore for whom it was written was I


id: 23754
author: nan
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  printing-press he can stamp paper upon inked type in so deft a manner and size of type and size of letter-press page for the book, and sends electrotype plates from which the book is printed, unless, as in rare the proof known as a "galley-proof," and is, in book work, printed on electrotype plates on a press which prints thirty-two pages at a time or electrotype plates are placed during the printing of the book. permanent use in printing all of the forms of the book in question. matter of hours, while, in the case of ordinary book work, a press book-work, is the flat-bed perfecting press. the first rotary press made for a good grade of book-work. A finished book-cover design can be made on water-color paper, written and printed about a book before it is off press and present to publication of his first book (at the author''s expense), the publisher

title:
  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing


id: 30419
title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed
author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
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  contains classified lists of library books, but these are not now of much _Catalogue of my English Library_, which contains a very useful selection Catalogue of Books fitted for the Libraries of Institutions was raised, suitable for Libraries, and Periodicals for Reading Rooms_, by W.H.J. Traice." A second edition of this book was published in 1863. When we come to consider libraries of printed books in place of libraries were first formed, collections of books were usually intended public libraries, a well-selected collection of standard books will be of Publishing Societies form quite a library of themselves, and an account second volume forms a good book of reference.[22] Many other catalogues such a list, and in 1631 was published a catalogue of books issued between [48] Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. Catalogue of Books in the Library at books are Dr. Billings''s Index Catalogue of the Library of


id: 30803
author: Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
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  As already indicated, the writing materials in use in different places other material, and with the advent of the printed book it very quickly As already indicated, ancient books were written on rolls of papyrus. material came the book as we know it, originally called in Latin the length of the roll, the result being something like a book printed only When the vellum book took the place of the papyrus roll consideration century the Chinese were printing books from wooden plates on which were block book as it is called, each leaf being printed from a single plate. the use of the block book survived the invention of typographical the only block book printed on vellum. block books to be printed on paper. copy of this book in existence printed entirely from wooden blocks. entire book printed from wood blocks. What effect did the use of vellum have on the form of the book?

title:
  Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49


id: 22351
title: Publisher''s Advertising (1872)
author: nan
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  good story, with faithful descriptions of nature, with true pictures of 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, 12mo, Cloth, This volume brings the life of Jefferson in a brief space within the The author of this charming book has had access to the best possible No attempt is made in this volume to present its subject as a public man of the man and his daily life amidst his family. The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself By the Author of "Tom Brown''s School Days." New Edition. _Both books, in One Volume, 8vo, Cloth, $1 50._ other kinds of light, will find this book of Mr. Abbott both interesting _JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN._ 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, by last name, usually but not always with "Miss" or "Mrs." if female._


id: 22608
author: Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
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  series of books, for use through life; making his little library, of all Let us now consider the subject of books fitted for public libraries. most new books wanted, except in the case of the one government library, bindings with the subjects of the books--and the British Museum Library mark long passages in pen and ink in books belonging to public libraries. be careful of the books in a public library will learn to be more careful condition of books and bindings in a much used public library, that Several great European libraries number as many pamphlets as books in year 955 volumes; the Buffalo Public Library 700 books in seventeen his private collection of books to found a "public library" in New York. departments of library work, cataloguing, supplying books and the titles of new books added to the library. As every considerable library has early printed books, a librarian must

title:
  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries


id: 22606
title: The Booklover and His Books
author: Koopman, Harry Lyman
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  In the following paper some account will be given of five book sizes Venetian Printing Press": "The public welcomed the new type and size. The College granted Aldus a monopoly for ten years for all books printed The printed page is relatively wide, and the whole effect of the book is developed to a higher pitch of beauty than the printed book has ever more beautiful than a printed book as a picture is than an engraving." the size of books is very great--from the "fly''s-eye Dante" to every year the best contemporary books that he can find worthily printed type is small, they by no means exhibit the miracle of the books printed English-reading public the alphabet of current books and papers is the printed on the two inner pages of one fold the size of the book. [4] The type in which this book is printed is a modern Bodoni, cut in


id: 26672
title: Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
author: Cockerell, Douglas
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  decorating book covers is by elaborate all-over gold-tooled pattern; End Papers--Leather Joints--Pressing End Papers--Leather Joints--Pressing It is a mistake to leave end papers to be pasted on after the book has over a piece of paper cut a little smaller than the page of the book leather joint staining or marking the ends while the book is being Gilding the edges of a book cut in boards is much the same process as To gild the edges of a cut book the boards should be turned back, and loose lining of good paper may be put between the book and the cover. cut leather work, which may be done after the book is bound, and Pasting down End Papers--Opening Books Pasting down End Papers--Opening Books To paste down end papers, the book is placed on the block with the the book, the paste-down paper turned over it, and the edges trimmed


id: 1302
title: The Enemies of Books
author: Blades, William
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  Books should have gilt tops.--Old libraries were neglected.--Instance Destruction of Books at the Reformation.--Mazarin library.--Caxton often injure books.--Examples.--Story of boys in a country library. At the time of the Reformation in England a great destruction of books remember having a book some years ago from the top shelf in the library he found in the w.c. some leaves of an old black-letter book. time a chest full of old black-letter books; that, upon his death, they of old books, and so pass into the paper where they make long holes taken in old books now-a-days, the worm has hard times of it, and very early black-letter books not now to be found in the Abbey library, Many a bibliographer, while examining old books, has to his great library, tearing away title pages from rare books of all sizes. not having paper to use, took down an old book, and cut from its broad library books.


id: 3426
title: On Books and the Housing of Them
author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
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  of pressure upon available space from the book population than from more as we get in view of the coming period of open book trade, and of for the Common Council of Aix purchased books for a public library in In a private library, where the service of books is commonly to be one gallery of books a room should not be more than from sixteen to simply a face of books with the lines of shelf, like threads, running inches of this may be given to shallow cases placed against the wall. arrangement, in bringing great numbers of books within easy reach. for great public libraries alone. might be formed a library of twelve hundred volumes upon chess. of books: a vast economy which, so far as it is applied, would probably A room of 40 feet by 20 (no great size) would receive 60,000,


id: 11251
title: Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R. Brimley Johnson
author: nan
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  scarcely any safe course to follow, in times like the present, but to doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority his claim on the score of rank, he takes care to remember us of Dr. Johnson''s saying, that when a nobleman appears as an author, his merit The author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and good truth, no man, now-a-days, composes verses for publication, with a as a man of inexhaustible powers of work." Known from his Oxford days as performance; but, like most of the works of the great poet (Byron) who fear her great mistress, Nature, has been in real life), when on a visit feeling for his little evil spirit than many a better man has for a good of Scott, the most original-minded man of this generation of Poets,


id: 33413
title: The Story of Books
author: Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
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  predecessors of type-printed books, as they are usually considered to copies of this work were printed than of any other block-book whatever. Only one block-book is known to have been printed in France, and that is first book printed at the Mentz press, and, for all that can be proved printed book was produced is not known. book-printing in Venice for five years. printed at the same place, and about the year 1475, the first book in considered to be the first book printed by Caxton, perhaps with as being probably the earliest English-printed service-book extant. in 1461, and thus was at one time supposed to be the first book printed In the same year that London began to print appeared the first books whether he was its printer), and probably printed some other books which The first book printed in the Gaelic language, though in Roman type, has


id: 41230
title: Ballads of Books
author: nan
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  The Love of Books, the Golden Key Love, joy, grief, laughter in my books I find. Old Books are best. Old Books are best. Till the New Age shall feel her cold heart beating I read, O friend, no pages of old lore, And new books old. seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease, Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books; ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS. There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! And to her heart, that books can make us wise. He knows rare books, like precious wines, But books, old friends that are always new, I must confess I love old books! I love black-letter books that saw Come to old books--consult the dead--


id: 32074
title: Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles
author: Buck, Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett)
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  If, in collating an old book, the amateur discovers that page White paper for inlaying may be tinted with water-colors to match the old cloth or paper at worn corners or along the edges of the boards pasted of their original freshness to books and old prints badly treated by time After the leather of the old book to be rebacked has been treated, a cut books are bound with the leather glued directly to the lining of the back, Books bound in boards, with cloth or paper backs, may be rebacked with boards of a book, to clean and repair the covering, either entirely or in book, the substance described for similar operations on pages or prints from an experienced binder, a book-shaped slip-case in which the volume especially adaptable to paper-covered books which, for any reason, one may the page of a bound book, care should be taken always to place two or


id: 36764
title: In the Track of the Bookworm
author: Browne, Irving
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  bibliomaniacs who reprint rare books from their own libraries in limited "Where we know that a book is at once both good and rare--where the Modern paper however has one advantage: Mr. Blades, in his pleasant "Enemies of Books," tells us "that the worm will thirty years'' haunting of the book-shops and print-shops of New York, I money for books unless they are meant to be a gift for some man." Mr. Martin is a little too hard here, for I have been told of such clubs which generally the books compelled to surrender their prints to the Illustrator little illustrated volume, like "Ballads of Books," compiled by Brander book ought to be illustrated in the spirit and costume of its time. taste for collecting book-plates of distinguished men or famous and say to me, "I know you are a great man to buy books--have you seen book, although it is good for nothing but to read.


id: 44810
title: Chats in the Book-Room
author: Pym, Horace N.
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  When those acquaintances had read the little book, they asked, like English water-colourists, to many of whom he was a good friend, and Mr. George Redford makes some notes of the best pictures for the Press; but One curious little history I can tell concerning a sale in recent years The best holiday for an over-worked man, who has little time to spare, One day a pleasant little American neighbour at dinner touched one''s "There''s nothing like work," said Mr. Boffin; "look at the bees!" present craze for work, and again proves, like Dickens'' bee, that we My good and kind old friend Robert Baxter, who now rests from his the first time an old friend and his wife in their pleasant country Staying many years ago in a pleasant country-house, whilst walking home a lovely little wretch, and you say he has eyes like mine.


id: 45417
title: Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case
author: Wayne, Dorothy
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  Betty stood up, caught the coat Dorothy threw into the cockpit, and "Bears--your grandmother!" said Dorothy''s mocking voice and the light Dorothy sat down on top of the wall, and pulled Betty to a place beside This time Dorothy skirted the porch and toward the front of the house Dorothy thought it time she took matters into her own hands. goodness'' sake, get going, George--we''ve got to drive to New Canaan some "I''m coming," Dorothy said quietly and she pressed her body into the Dorothy, let me introduce our host, Uncle Abe Lincoln River--known to "Yes, Uncle, he''s a friend of ours," said Dorothy. "Uncle Abe," she said, taking the old man''s hand, "you are kind and "Who was that man, Uncle Abe?" asked Dorothy, stifling a yawn with the "How do we know that friend Joyce hasn''t got hold of Stoker and possibly "Give up your place," said Dorothy, "and let some of these other


id: 44890
author: Bouchot, Henri
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  a book was illustrated on wood at the end of the century--Influence printers and their work--Engraved plates in English books. printed works, and some of the illuminators engraved in relief or cast Be that as it may, the book, the printing of which was finished on St. Sylvester''s Day, 1467, is the first known with engravings, and only volumes folio, the oldest in date of books printed at Paris in French. century--How a book was illustrated on wood at the end of the Bible--English printers and their work--Engraved plates in English of the engravings for books printed at Lyons. wood engraving in the illustration of the Book, and the best artists [Illustration: Fig. 65.--Frontispiece of a book from Plantin''s printing Baskerville--English books with illustrations--Wood engraving in illustration of books by engraved plates was in the first half of the although both of these artists did excellent work in book illustration.

title:
  The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time


id: 46609
title: The Book-Lovers'' Anthology
author: nan
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  work of a writer who had translated a German book into English, saying Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, attractive old book, we have stood reading for hours at the stall, lost book would be good company for personages like Roger Ascham and his So long shall live thy praise in books of fame, is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it This wonderful work is one of the few books which may be read repeatedly and books, and have had long experience in learning, and in the world: there is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom, and use; I know men who say they had as lief read any book in a library copy as ''Libraries,'' says my good old friend George Dyer, a man as learned as he The works touching books are two: first, libraries


