Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...bought a text-book of the Boston agents of another New York firm found, on taking it home, that several leaves were loose. He at once took it back to ask an exchange, but was greeted with a refusal, accompanied by the information that "they did n't warrant cloth-bound books...
Rich and luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...
...rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed very much like a jail. Three or four small beds were ranged along the wall, on which reclined or squatted several individuals simply attired in a short strip of linen cloth. Opposite the entrance hung a large picture of what I at first thought a ballet-troupe in distress, but I afterwards found that it was only a group of Dr. Dio Lewis's pupils. A big man, in a choker coming up to his ears, and no cravat, told...
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by J. R. Osgood & Co. to furnish students with portfolios at a very small price ($2.00 or $2.25), provided fifty or more portfolios are subscribed for. They will be strongly made, with cloth flaps. Their size will be 25 x 30 inches, - which size will hold the largest print. Orders for these should be left at No. 2 Holworthy, and as soon as possible. Frames for the Heliotypes can be obtained at A. B. French's, Palmer Street, between Church and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, in orders of a dozen each, at prices varying from...
Warp and woof, into cloth of gold...