A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately arisen in this country, in the gratification of which no small share of ingenuity has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus... The Finishers' friendly circular - Seite 1251851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Roscoe - 1795 - 500 Seiten
...labour afterwards employed on them, they maybe considered as the jnost expensive articles of luxury. A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...has been displayed; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning, by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 Seiten
...historian on the subject of book-binding — for this forms a material feature in all ' Bibliographiana.' * A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...has been displayed : but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider • I really... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 828 Seiten
...relating to the bibliomania. Read here what Mr. Roscoe hath so eloquently written in commendation of it : 'A taste for the exterior decoration of books has...has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning, by the degree of expense thus incurred, we mnst consider it as greatly... | |
| William Roscoe - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...considered as the most expensive articles of luxury. A taste for the exterior decoration of books lias lately arisen in this country ( in the gratification...has been displayed; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1842 - 790 Seiten
...to the Bibliomania. Read here what Mr. Roscoe hath so eloquently written in commendation of it : ' A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...share of ingenuity has been displayed ; but if we arc to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must... | |
| William Roscoe - 1846 - 614 Seiten
...labour afterwards employed on them, they may be considered as the most expensive articles of luxury. A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...which no small share of ingenuity has been displayed : Init if we are to judge cf the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred,... | |
| William Roscoe - 1847 - 582 Seiten
...labour afterwards employed on them, they may be considered as the most expensive articles of luxury. A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...ingenuity has been displayed; but if we are to judge cf the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider it... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1876 - 804 Seiten
...to the Bibliomania. Read here what Mr. Roscoe hath so eloquently written in commendation of it : ' A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly... | |
| Thomas Grognall Didbin - 1876 - 750 Seiten
...to the Bibliomania. Read here what Mr. Roscoe hath so eloquently written in commendation of it : ' A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...this country, in the gratification of which no small sharo of ingenuity has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning... | |
| Henri Pène du Bois - 1883 - 68 Seiten
...although Mr. Roscoe wrote eloquently in commendation of ancient binding in his "Lorenzo de Medici." "A taste for the exterior decoration of books has...has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the present predilection for learning by the degree of expense thus incurred we must consider it as greatly... | |
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