Curious Bookbindings.—The magnificent library of the late M. Lucien de Kosny, which' was being sold in Paris some months since, was, says the * A eademy,'. peculiarly' rich in every variety'of binding, from the masterpiece? of Boserain,- JUerome, and Thouvenin, down to specimens of cat's-sdrin The hide of nearly-every possible animal has been made into a covering for thp books. Crocodiles, seals, wolves, tigeiv, panthers, foxes, and serpenls have all Had to supply, a. contingent.,
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 3
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74Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 3
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