Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Books, Portfolios, Card-cases, &c., A.D. 1768-1866G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1870 - 198 стор. |
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Сторінка xiii - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Сторінка xiv - Embossed calico was also introduced about the same period by Mr. De La Rue. Hydraulic presses instead of the old wooden screw presses ; Wilson's cutting machines, which superseded the old plough; the cutting tables with shears invented by Mr. Warren De La Rue, and now applied to squaring and cutting millboards for book covers ; all these means and contrivances, indispensable to large establishments prove that machinery is one of the elements necessary to enable a binder on a large scale to carry...
Сторінка xiii - This account may or may not be true; but, at all events, the library was dispersed, if not destroyed ; it ceased to exist as a public institution. The library of the British Museum contains upwards of 800,000 volumes, exclusive of manuscripts. The sums paid for certain books would appear to the soberminded incredible, if they were not well authenticated. In 1806, a Bible, presented by Alcuin to Charlemagne in about AD 780, was sold for £150o.
Сторінка xiii - The sentence was executed with blind obedience, the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel.
Сторінка xii - The binding is of blood colouied morocco, extending an inch and a half all round the inside of the cover, on which is placed a bold but open border tooled in gold, forming a fine relief to the rest of the inside, which is in purple, elegantly worked all over in hexagons running into each other in the Venetian style. In each compartment is placed the lion rampant and fleur-de-lis alternately. The fly-leaves are of vellum, ornamented with two narrow gold lines, and the edges are tooled. The back consists...
Сторінка xi - Arabians, in the seventh century, appear to have either discovered, or to have learned from the Chinese, the art of making paper from cotton ; for it is known that a manufactory of such paper was established at Samarcand about the year...
Сторінка xiv - ... upon the former plan. The reduction of price is not the least advantage incident to the new method, amounting to fully 50 per cent, upon that with leather. The dyed cloth being cut by a pattern to the size suited to the volume, is passed rapidly...
Сторінка 32 - Making book-covers in tortoise-shell, inlaid or not with pearl or ivory ; and for improvements in machinery for embossing, carving, and inlaying book- covers with pearl and ivory ; and for making metal joints, by which such book may be widely opened ; the said improvements to be applicable to inlaying pianofortes.
Сторінка xiv - have become a manufacturing business. Books handsomely " bound, gilt, lettered, embossed, and otherwise ornamented, no " longer depend upon individual skill, but are produced with " extraordinary rapidity by the aid of machinery. Mr. Burn, of " Hatton Garden, first introduced rolling machines to supersede '' hammering; the iron printing presses of Hopkinson and others " were altered to form arming presses, by which block-gilding, " blind tooling, and embossing can be effected with accuracy and
Сторінка xii - ... have been blazoned with heraldic accuracy on both sides of the volume. When we state that more than 57,000 impressions of tools have been required to produce this wonderful exemplar of ingenuity and skill, some idea may be formed of the time and labour necessary for its execution.