Several complaints of the new bindings have come to the committee, but upon investigation, it was found in every case that the complaints were due to imperfect or torn pages and not to defective binding.
While discussing the question of reinforced bindings it may not be amiss again to call attention to the special binding of the Everyman's Library.
Bickersteth's Hymnal Companion to Book of Common Prayer may be had in various styles andbindings from 1d.
The bindings were taken off all our ski, and either stowed with other loose articles in a provision-case, or hung up together with the harness on the top of the ski, which were lashed upright to the front of the sledge.
In addition to all the rest, the beasts had devoured some ski-bindings and things of that sort.
Those red bindings I heard in deep sounds, and the yellow covers of the French bindingsnext to them made a shrill, piercing note not unlike the chattering of starlings.
Mr. Arnold left the room, and presently returned with his arms filled with all the drawing-room books he could find, with grand bindings outside, and equally grand plates inside.
It is especially strong in fine specimens of early English and Scotch bindings; there are a few examples from De Thou's library, and a few characteristic specimens of Italian and Flemish bindings of the best periods.
The beauty of the bindings was naturally the most striking feature of the library, but there were many books which were rare or historically interesting apart from their coverings.
Toovey bought notable books, but unless they had the second qualification of being in a good state, and the bindings valuable, he was less anxious about them.
Ten years before his death the old man retired from the business in favour of his son, but his devotion to rare books and rare bindings was his ruling passion to the last.
Many of the more notable specimens of the bindingsin the libraries of the three last-mentioned gentlemen were exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1891, and are described in the catalogue.
Henri et Diane, and De Thou, and especially of choice old morocco bindings by Desseuil, Padeloup, and Derome.
If he will take that to any bookseller, and tell him what bindings he wants, he will fill the order for him.
The girl looked out of the window in adding, "I presume with nice bindings it will look very well.
Another friend informs me that in the Natural History Museum of the Devon and Exeter Institution is a specimen of "another little pest, which has a great affection for bindings in calf and roan.
I have seen lovely bindingssadly marked by such uncanny neighbours.
Some bindings seem positively to invite damp, and mildew will attack these when no other books on the same shelf show any signs of it.
Lyon, the publishers often casing them in very gay little trade bindings sometimes stamped in gold, but often with painted interlacements.
Against the pretty bindings and vignettes and the popular books to which they were applied little or no opposition was raised, and they continued to be issued till the taste for them died out about 1580.
But bindings from his shop are sometimes signed I.
Lyonnese books were charmingly illustrated and also, it may be added, charmingly bound, a very pretty style of trade bindings being just then in vogue.
One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic Book-Bindings dating from the fifteenth century to the present time pictured by etchings, artotypes, and lithographs after the originals selected from the library of Robert Hoe .
The Binding of Books An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings By Herbert P.
Prideaux with a Chapter on Early Stamped Bindings By E.
Thy gaudy shelves with crimson bindings glow, And Epictetus is a perfect beau.
Each volume in this Series is furnished in elegant cloth bindings, or fringed floral bindings at $1.
The regular edition is issued in cloth bindings at $1.
Also kept in a variety of calf and morocco bindings at moderate prices.
Before the European War publishers were gradually introducing reinforced and other strong bindings for children’s books, and it is to be hoped that this desirable practice will in due course be resumed.
Bindings should be strong and durable, an almost impossible condition at the present day when cheap machine-made cases are the rule.
The principal leathers used for public library bindings are pig-skin, persian and levant moroccos, and roan.
Most of the so-called leather “preservatives” are hurtful rather than helpful, but it may be observed that some leather bindings which get dry and worn will improve if treated with ordinary vaseline.
Small birds should be allowed to stand at least a week in a dry place before the bindings are removed.
They may be arranged under thebindings with small tweezers.
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