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...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...
...Friday, December 6, and on Monday and Wednesday, December 9 and 11. They will be more technical in character, and will relate respectively to the "Forwarding and Binding of the Book Beautiful," "Tooling and Decoration," and "Printing," together with a few suggestions on the manufacture and use of paper, vellum...
...Decoration of the Book Beautiful," including pattern making. The third of these technical lectures, the last of the whole course, will be on the printing of the book. It will include the invention of the alphabet and of printing, and also the manufacture and use of the paper, vellum, and other materials. These lectures will be open to the public...
...Semitic Museum has recently acquired a collection of about 125 Syriac manuscripts. Although some are modern copies on paper, others are old manuscripts on parchment and vellum. These manuscripts go back to the twelfth century and even to the Bible. The collection was made by Professor J. Rendel Harris of England, one of the foremost scholars in Syriac studies...
...following are the prices: Complete, bound in cloth, $3.50; in full leather morocco, gilt top, flexible cover, $5. Another edition (edition de Luxe) is printed on imperial Japanese vellum paper, with heavy vellum or parchment cover, and costs...