Bindings.
«** *** •** In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and all that class of perpetually self-reproductive volumes —Great Nature’s Stereotypes-- -we see them individually perish with less .regret, because we know the copies of them to be “eterne. ’ But where a book is at once both good and rare-where the individual is almost tho species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Fromethcan torch That can its light relumine, — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by liis Duchess—no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.—Charles Lamb.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 10
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114Bindings. Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 10
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