OLD BOOKS RELIVE
USED FOR LIBRARY FITTINGS. Britain is turning old books, no longer of value for their literary contents and once quite unsaleable, into a novel export. London book binders are ingeniously converting these old books into a range of library fittings —blotting pads, ink-stands, waste-paper baskets and book-ends.
Old-world looking, many of them beautifully tooled in gold and bearing ornate armorial devices, these forgotten volumes, bound in their day by master craftsmen, are living again in the New World.
Ink-stands are made by hingeing two volumes together. They can be left in the place of the ordinary inkstand on the desk where, closeci, they, give an air of distinction. When the top book is raised a two-welled inkstand is shown below. The blotters are made from folio covers, mostly in Russian leather or pigskin, leathers now made beautiful by their patina. The waste-paper baskets are also folios, the covers of two volumes making the four sides. Book-ends are composed of three or more books fixed together. x The United States is buying these novelties in Increasing quantities. One -recent order from a single store was for 350 dollars worth of book ink-] stands.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 6
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195OLD BOOKS RELIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 6
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