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" 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 Life of Lorenzo De' Medici: Called the Magnificent - Página 79
por William Roscoe - 1803 - 435 páginas
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The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volúmenes1-2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 páginas
...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...degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider • I really wish some bibliographer would collect all the anecdotes about vellum copies. Perhaps we...
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Bibliomania: Or Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six ..., Volumen1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 844 páginas
...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...expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly inferior to that of the Romans during the times of the first Emperors, or of the Italians at the 15th...
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Bibliomania, Or, Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six ..., Volumen1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 828 páginas
...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...learning, by the degree of expense thus incurred, we mnst consider it as greatly inferior to that of the Romans during the times of the first Emperors,...
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The life of Lorenzo de' Medici. [With] Poesie del magnifico ..., Volumen2

William Roscoe - 1825 - 536 páginas
...furniture to possess them." Acting under the influence of such impressions, we cannot wonder at the pro~ 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 of which no small share of ingenuity has...
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Bibliomania: Or Book-madness ; a Bibliographical Romance ; Illustrated with Cuts

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1842 - 790 páginas
...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...
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The Finishers' friendly circular

1851 - 208 páginas
...approbation of the Societies, to be expelled. (The Rules in next No.) ROSCOB ON BOOE ADORNMRNT.' — " A taste for the exterior decoration of books has lately...has been displayed ; but if we are to judge of the presentpredeliction for learning, by the degree of expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly...
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Bibliomania: Or Book-madness; a Bibliographical Romance

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1876 - 804 páginas
...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...expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly inferior to that of the Romans during tho times of the tirst Emperors, or of the Italians at the 15th...
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Bibliomania; Or: Book-madness

Thomas Grognall Didbin - 1876 - 750 páginas
...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...
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Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, with a mem. of the author, ed. by W ..., Página 108

William Roscoe - 1883 - 638 páginas
...arms, but with a laurel branch in allusion to his name, and the motto " Semper." When we advert ,to the immense prices which were given for these works,...expense thus incurred, we must consider it as greatly inferior either to that of the Romans, during the times of the first emperors, or of the Italians in...
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Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding

Henri Pène du Bois - 1883 - 68 páginas
...although Mr. Roscoe wrote eloquently in commendation of ancient binding in his "Lorenzo de Medici." "A taste for the exterior decoration of books has...expense thus incurred we must consider it as greatly inferior to that of the Romans during the time of the first emperors or of the Italians at the fifteenth...
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