Author Description

Excerpt from A Lecture on Bookbinder as a Fine Art: Delivered Before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885 The most ambitious work upon bookbinding which has appeared is written by a Frenchman named Marius Michel. His specialty is the tooling or ornamenting of the covers, and he naturally considers the subj eat from his own technical stand-point. Hence his treatise is in a great measure a failure; especially as he is not, as a writer upon the subj ect should be, imbued with high artistic instincts. 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.