The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting |
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Page 19
... perfect specimens of the modern press . The history of this well - known Mazarin Bible , which attracted such atten- tion of late , deserves to be told , like that of some well - known historical personage . Other works issued by the ...
... perfect specimens of the modern press . The history of this well - known Mazarin Bible , which attracted such atten- tion of late , deserves to be told , like that of some well - known historical personage . Other works issued by the ...
Page 20
... perfect . " This Perkins one was considered " the finest of the few known copies , whether for amplitude of margin or purity of vellum , it being as clean as the day it issued from the press . " It however was declared by Dr. Dibdin to ...
... perfect . " This Perkins one was considered " the finest of the few known copies , whether for amplitude of margin or purity of vellum , it being as clean as the day it issued from the press . " It however was declared by Dr. Dibdin to ...
Page 22
... perfect and extraordinarily fine copy , of the full size , most of the leaves being rough and uncut , so as even to show the ancient MS . signatures and chapter- numbers , as written down by Guttenberg himself for the guidance of the ...
... perfect and extraordinarily fine copy , of the full size , most of the leaves being rough and uncut , so as even to show the ancient MS . signatures and chapter- numbers , as written down by Guttenberg himself for the guidance of the ...
Page 32
... perfect works of art , triumphs of unassisted genius , at a time when everything had to be devised . We look at them with wonder and admiration , as we would at some graceful and elegant memorial in some old — Italian city . And here is ...
... perfect works of art , triumphs of unassisted genius , at a time when everything had to be devised . We look at them with wonder and admiration , as we would at some graceful and elegant memorial in some old — Italian city . And here is ...
Page 39
... perfect familiarity with the handling of this new - born type . More wonderful , indeed , is it to turn the pages of their great Pliny , and think that the lines of type displayed was but two years old . The well - known Aldine type ...
... perfect familiarity with the handling of this new - born type . More wonderful , indeed , is it to turn the pages of their great Pliny , and think that the lines of type displayed was but two years old . The well - known Aldine type ...
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