book-press

I am just packing them up with a few other books for my hermitage at Abbotsford, where my present parlour is only 12 feet square, and my book-press in Lilliputian proportion.

A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

It was not the number of his books, for he tells us how he was pained when a brother minister opened his book-press and smiled at its few shelves.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

In a small back closet, window opposite to door, and both always open, I had soon got a table wedged to fixity, had set on end my book-box, changing it to a book-press, and adjusted myself to work, quite tolerably all along, though feeling as if tied up in a rack.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

The book-press was at that moment doing tremendous work among the classes with education and leisure.

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot John Morley 1880

It was not the number of his books, for he tells us how he was pained when a brother minister opened his book-press and smiled at its few shelves.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

Pisistratus is a group of officers, and behind them again a book-press without doors, and a row of open books on the top.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

I formerly thought that this book-press might represent those in use in

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

No example of an English book-press has survived, so far as I know, but it would be rash to say that none exists; nor have I been so fortunate as to find one in France, though I have taken a great deal of pains to obtain information on the subject.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

No example of an English monastic book-press has survived, so far as I have been able to discover; but it would be rash to say that none exists.

Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 John Willis Clark 1871

The same use obtained in medieval times [176], and the passage quoted above from the Augustinian customs [177] shews that the book-press there contemplated was a recess lined with wood and subdivided so as to keep the books separate.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871