Word: cobden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cobden-Sanderson delivered the second of his lectures on the printing, binding and decoration of books, last evening. The lecture was of a technical nature; the lecturer confined himself to the work of the "forwarder" or binder, and described the various processes by which the printed sheets are converted into the bound, but undecorated book...
...LECTURES ON BOOKS. "The Book Beautiful." II. Technical Lecture. Mr. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Robinson Hall...
...Cobden-Sanderson, of the Doves Bindery and the Doves Press, London, will give the second of a series of four public lectures on the printing, binding and decoration of books, in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture this evening will be of a technical character and illustrative of "The Forwarding and Binding of the Book Beautiful." It will be informal in character, and members of the audience are invited to ask questions freely and to discuss points of interest...
...connection with these lectures, a small collection of books handsomely bound in colored leather and vellum, printed and decorated under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's personal supervision, are on public exhibition in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall, together with a few select works on book-binding and its history. This room will be open every afternoon during the next ten days from 2 until 5.30 o'clock...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...