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Example sentences for "printed books"

  • Yellow or red were often used in this way to mark the small black capitals in printed books (p.

  • There are still great possibilities in the hand decoration of printed books.

  • If the cards conveyed a suggestion of the possibility of printed books, the suggestion was rejected.

  • It is a noteworthy circumstance that he does not describe printing or [p121] printed books, although he does mention the paper money of China, formally stamped in red ink with the imperial seal.

  • We come now to the notable catalogues of early-printed books, which aim to cover all the issues of the press from the first invention of printing, up to a certain period.

  • A celebrated book restorer named Harris, gained a great reputation among book lovers and librarians by his consummate skill in the reproduction of the text of black-letter rarities and early-printed books of every kind.

  • Garnett's History of Italian Literature is admirable (by the former Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum Library).

  • Formerly Assistant in the Department of Printed Books, British Museum.

  • Assistant in the Department of Printed Books, British Museum.

  • He was finally appointed assistant curator in the department of printed books.

  • He bequeathed these manuscripts, as well as a considerable number of printed books, to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee.

  • He possessed a considerable number of manuscripts, and also a small library of printed books, which, as far as is known, were bound in velvet.

  • The Cottonian collection of manuscripts is now kept in the Manuscript Department at the British Museum; but there are numbers of printed books as well that are widely distributed.

  • The Rules for compiling catalogues in the department of printed books were revised and published in 1906.

  • Printed Books, and their hospitable reception of the Author.

  • But the number of printed books is wonderful, and increasing every year; for Bodley has bequeathed a considerable revenue for that purpose.

  • They were too much interested in the suppression of printed books to judge the matter coldly.

  • Nay, not only our preaching, but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books?

  • Printed books he contemns, as a novelty of this latter age; but a manuscript he pores on everlastingly, especially if the cover be all moth-eaten, and the dust make a parenthesis between every syllable.

  • They were valued at three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine pounds, and were paid for partly in money, and partly with duplicates of printed books in the Museum collection.

  • There were three thousand eight hundred and forty-four lots of printed books, and four hundred and thirteen manuscripts in two hundred and forty-three lots in the sale.

  • This library, founded by Cardinal Girolamo Casanata in the year 1700, is said to contain a greater number of printed books exclusively, in contradistinction to manuscripts, than any other in Rome, not excepting the Vatican.

  • This is a library of considerable extent, and contains much that is valuable or curious both in the department of printed books and in that of manuscripts.

  • Manuscripts are really more attractive than printed books, because they are so various, and have been produced over a much longer period of the world's history.

  • The famous code of ninety-one rules which was given to the world in 1841 (Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum, vol.

  • Nay not only our preaching, but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books?

  • There we perceive that Lord Oxford was indebted for many rarities to John Bagford and other private purveyors of printed books as well as MSS.

  • There are three prominent publications, each in its way of signal value and merit: the British Museum and Bodleian Catalogues of Printed Books, and Mr. Quaritch's New General Catalogue.


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