A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books, and the Formation of Public and Private LibrariesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1900 - 509 Seiten |
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... leather bindings . Averages are very uncertain standards of comparison , as a single book rarity often costs more than a hundred vol- umes of the new books of the day ; but in a library filled with the best editions of classical and ...
... leather bindings . Averages are very uncertain standards of comparison , as a single book rarity often costs more than a hundred vol- umes of the new books of the day ; but in a library filled with the best editions of classical and ...
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... nearly all books , half binding , if well executed , and with cloth sides , is quite as elegant , and very nearly as solid and lasting as full leather ; for if a book is so worn as to need THE ART OF BOOK - BINDING . 51.
... nearly all books , half binding , if well executed , and with cloth sides , is quite as elegant , and very nearly as solid and lasting as full leather ; for if a book is so worn as to need THE ART OF BOOK - BINDING . 51.
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... leather is much more expensive than half binding , though not doubly so . Every librarian or book collector should understand something of book - binding and its terms , so that he may be able to give clear directions as to every item ...
... leather is much more expensive than half binding , though not doubly so . Every librarian or book collector should understand something of book - binding and its terms , so that he may be able to give clear directions as to every item ...
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... leather , such as leatherette and morocco paper , and of parchment . I take no account here of obso- lete styles - as ivory , wood , brass , silver and other metals , nor of velvet , satin , and other occasional luxuries of the binder's ...
... leather , such as leatherette and morocco paper , and of parchment . I take no account here of obso- lete styles - as ivory , wood , brass , silver and other metals , nor of velvet , satin , and other occasional luxuries of the binder's ...
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... leather jacket . It may go for years , especially if the book is well sewed , but to rebinding it must come at last ; and the larger the volume , the sooner it becomes shaky , or broken at some weak spot . for book - bindings , is the ...
... leather jacket . It may go for years , especially if the book is well sewed , but to rebinding it must come at last ; and the larger the volume , the sooner it becomes shaky , or broken at some weak spot . for book - bindings , is the ...
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Seite 89 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 266 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Seite 270 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Seite 161 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto...
Seite 266 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Seite 274 - With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead :— " The dead," methinks a thousand tongues reply; " These are the tombs of such as cannot die ! " Crown'd with eternal fame, they sit sublime, " And laugh at all the little strife of time.
Seite 274 - This, Books can do; — nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live. They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise ; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise : Their aid they yield to all; they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone.
Seite 160 - I CAN wonder at nothing more than how a man can be idle ; but of all others, a scholar ; in so many improvements of reason, in such sweetness of knowledge, in such variety of studies, in such importunity of thoughts : other artizans do but practise, we still learn ; others run still in the same gyre to weariness, to satiety ; our choice is infinite ; other labors require recreations ; our very labor recreates our sports ; we can never want either somewhat to do, or somewhat that we would do.
Seite 161 - Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred : this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous.
Seite 271 - LOVE my books as drinkers love their wine; •*- The more I drink, the more they seem divine; With joy elate my soul in love runs o'er, And each fresh draught is sweeter than before...
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