Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Exhibition of Silver Embroidered and Curious Bookbindings: April 16 to May 9, 1903
It Was appropriate that these exhibitions of modern hand-tooled bindings should be fol lowed, as they were in 1894, by a collection Of machine-made covers, or Commercial Bookbindings. Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Per sons Of the Past, with Arms or Devices upon the Bindings was the subject of an exhibition held in 1895; Recent American Bindings in Leather, of one held in 1897. In 1899 a collection of early English decorated bindings, about which little had then been written, was shown. Last year mosaic binding, the high est form of the art, was exemplified in a col lection of remarkable extent and beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
