The Booklover and His Books by Lyman Harry Koopman

Author:Lyman Harry Koopman [Koopman, Lyman Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: books, Library Science
ISBN: 9781435392861
Amazon: 1435392868
Publisher: IndyPublish
Published: 2008-02-11T18:30:00+00:00

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PARCHMENT BINDINGS

HERE are certain things, the Autocrat informs us, that are "good for nothing until they have been kept a long while; and some are good for nothing until they have been long kept and used. Of the first, wine is the illustrious and immortal example. Of those which must be kept and used I will name three—meerschaum pipes, violins, and poems." May we present another representative of the class which gathers value with the "process of the suns," one as immortal and historic as wine and even richer in associations—the parchment book cover? In this case it matters not whether the object meets with use or neglect. So long as it is not actually worn to pieces on the one hand, nor destroyed by mold on the other, the parchment binding will keep on converting time into gold, until after a few hundred years it reaches a tint far surpassing in beauty the richest umber of a meerschaum, and approached only by the kindred hue of antique ivory.

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