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# George Van Camp Sons Company v. American Can Company

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United States Supreme Court
278 U.S. 245
George Van Camp Sons Company v. American Can Company
Argued: Dec. 5 and 6, 1928. --- Decided: Jan 2, 1929
Messrs. Solon J. Carter and Frederick E. Matson, both of Indianapolis, Ind., for George Van Camp & Sons Co.
[Argument of Counsel from page 246 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Wm. H. Thompson, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Lemuel A. Welles, of New York City, for American Can Co.
Mr. Henry H. Hornbrook, of Indianapolis, Ind., for Van Camp Packing Co., Inc.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 247-248 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Historical essay on the art of bookbinding/Jacques Auguste De Thou

JACQUES AUGUSTE DE THOU.
His predilection for fine books in superb covers was probably incited by his early admiration for the four books which Grolier presented to his father—Christophe De Thou—perhaps in recognition of valuable service as president of the commission in the suit for peculation, which resulted in Grolier’s acquittal and vindication. Of these four books was the famous “Translation of Hippocrates,” by Calvus (Rome, 1525), one of the finest Grolier bindings known, bequeathed ​by Motteley to Napoleon III. in 1850, and burned in 1871 in the library of the Louvre.
It is to De Thou that is due the preservation in France of the collection of manuscripts of Catherine de Medicis, who has been classed among illustrious wholesale biblioklepts for her appropriation of Marshal Strozzi’s library. De Thou was at the time the collection was offered for sale, in 1594, Librarian of the Royal Library, in place of Jacques Amyot, and he obtained injunctions restraining the Abbé de Bellebranche from disposing of the collection, until after several suits it became, in 1599, part of the royal collections.
De Thou has shared with Catherine de Medicis the time-honored distinction of a biblioklept, becomingly appreciated by Disraeli the Elder in the expression of an opinion on Bishop More’s collection of a library “by plundering those of the clergy of his diocese” (according to Gough), that “this plundering consisted in cajoling others out of what they knew not how to value, an advantage which every skillful lover of hooks must enjoy over those whose apprenticeship has not yet expired.”
De Thou’s collections were like Grolier’s, made principally in Italy, and it is estimated that at his ​death his library comprised some eight thousand volumes admirably bound in calf, vellum, and green, orange and red morocco, stamped with the various escutcheons described by Ap. Briquet in the “Bulletin du Bibliophile” of 1860, and by Joannis Guigard in the “Armorial du Bibliophile.”
To De Thou’s folio copy of the “Historia Piscium” of Salvianus, purchased at the Edwards sale for the Fonthill collection, has been accorded the palm of superior merit of all books of that age now extant. De Thou’s binders had profited by the example of Grolier’s, and in their hands the art of binding in morocco seemed to have attained perfection.
# Historical paintings of the Slavic nations by Alfons Mucha/front matter

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ALFONS-MARIE MUCHA
# Historical essay on the art of bookbinding/Morocco Leather

OF MOROCCO LEATHER BINDING.
The Crusaders brought from Constantinople, Palestine and Egypt many specimens of the admirable bindings in morocco and silken stuffs, which, because of the resemblance of the covers to the gay plumage of a bird’s wing, were called alæ. They were copied by Italian bookbinders, but were not adopted until ​the sixteenth century. The precious books of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were confided to goldsmiths, enamellers and illuminators, as heretofore. We have many details of their workmanship in the inventories of the libraries of Charles VI. of France (1399), of the dukes of Burgundy, and of the dukes of Orleans, of Chaucer’s royal patron Edward III., whose style of binding may be imagined from the following extracts from the archives of the British Museum:
“To Alice Claver, for the making of xvi laces and xvi tasshels for the garnyshing of divers of the King’s books, ijs. viijd.”
“To Piers Bauduyn, Stacioner, for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called Titus Linius, xxs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called Ffrossard, xvjs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called the Bible, xvjs.; for bynding, gilding and dressing of a booke called le Gouuernement of Kings and Princes, xvjs.”
In the inventory of Charles VI. are missals of silver gilt covers, and of velvet embroidered with the fleur-de-lys, and the arms of France enamelled on the silver clasps. Other bindings were of vellum, silk, or dressed leather, deer skin, fox skin, sheep skin, calf skin, and the lamentable goat skin (whence bouquin), and hog skin, of which the irrepressible book-worm is particularly fond.
​Skelton has given a very poetic description of a missal of Henry VIII.:
With that of the boke lozende were the claspes, The margin was illumined al with golden railes, And bice empictured with grass-oppes and waspes, With butterflies, and fresh pecocke tailes, Englozed with flowers, and slyme snayles, Envyved pictures well touched and quickely, It would have made a man hole that had be right sickely, To behold how it was garnished and bound, Encovered over with gold and tissue fine, The clasps and bullions were worth a M pounde, With belassis and carbuncles the border did shine, With aurum mosaicum every other line.
Not a satisfactory description in a bibliographical point of view; possibly the work of Edwards, but the “bibliophile Jacob” is of the opinion that it was similar to the bindings which King Mathias Corvinus of Hungary caused to be executed by Italian artists for the Buda library, composed principally of illuminated manuscripts bound in colored morocco, ornamented with silver bosses and clasps, treasures which were destroyed by the Turks under Soliman II., in 1526.
A book-a-bosom, valiant King, Mathias of Hungary, the prince of bibliophiles! but as there are few, if any, ​specimens extant of the bindings bearing the symbol suggested by the Roman etymon of his name: a crow with a ring in its mouth; his mantle has fallen to Jean Grolier.
# Historical records of Port Phillip

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the first annals of the colony of Victoria
HISTORICAL RECORDS
of
PORT PHILLIP:
the
First Annals of the Colony of Victoria
edited by
JOHN J. SHILLINGLAW,
Fellow of tho Royal Geographical Society of London; Author of "Arctic Discovery," &c.
[From Papers presented to Parliament in return to an Order of tho Legislative Assembly of Victoria, on the motion of Mr. W, J. O'Hen, M.P., 14 August 1878.]
By Authority:
JOHN FERRES, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE
1879
CONTENTS.
| Sketch.— The Heads of Port Phillip. | page |
| Portrait of Mr. James Hobbs | 15 |
| Fac-simile Chart of the Survey of Port Phillip by Grimes | 15 |
| Portrait of Lieutenant-Governor Collins | 30 |
| "Rev. Robert Knopwood | 64 |
| "Captain Woodriff, R.N., H.M.S. Calcutta | 65 |
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# Historical essay on the art of bookbinding/Grolieru et Amicorum

GROLIERII ET AMICORUM.
The friendly intimacy that existed between Aldus Manucius and Grolier, while the latter was treasurer for the Duchy of Milan (about 1510), animated, if it did not originally promote, Grolier’s appreciation of “the art preservative.”
He was a member of the little academy which held its meetings at the learned printer’s house, apparently of a size to contain none but true friends, as a realization of the ideal of Socrates. There he met as colleagues Navagero, Marino Sanudo, the Greek Musurus, Giovanni Gioconde, Erasmus, poets, artists and savants.
In 1518 Grolier was a celebrated collector of books, and Erasmus prophesied that they would make him great. There were, says La Caille, three thousand volumes in his library, which remained intact for one hundred and ten years in the hotel de Vic. They were sold at auction in 1676, after the death of Dominique de Vic. The original buyers are not known, and three hundred and fifty volumes only have been found extant by M. Le Roux de Lincy.
There were many of the finest editions of the Aldine press, many in duplicate and in triplicate copies, ​a circumstance which, in the opinion of his biographer, explains and justifies the singular device of his volumes: Io Grolierii et Amicorum—and all were bound in Levant morocco, embellished with varied designs and ornaments of the most exquisite patterns. A distinguishing feature of these was the interlacing with geometrical accuracy of boldly traced gold lines. Grolier undoubtedly led the art of bookbinding, justifying the opinionated expression of the Comte de Laborde: “Bookbinding is an art all French.” It is a moot point with bibliographers as to the binding of Grolier’s volumes, whether they were executed at Paris or at Lyons. The relentless Mr. Fournier, inferring from an allusion in Bonaventure des Périer’s “Cymbalum Mundi,” that the best bindings were made in Paris, while the no less learned “bibliophile Jacob” (P. Lacroix) gives the palm to Lyons, the birth-place of Grolier, and the favorite city of Bonaventure des Périers. Be that as it may, Grolier had unconsciously founded a school of the art of bookbinding, and it would be impossible to enumerate the excellent works with which it enriched the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Of these are the elegant bindings of Francis I., stamped with the emblematical salamander; and of Henry II. and his mistress, Diana ​of Poitiers, to whom is due the edict providing that a copy on vellum, handsomely bound, of every book printed in France should be deposited in the library of the King. Her books were stamped with mythological emblems and crescents, sometimes untied in a monogram with the King’s initial and the royal coat-of-arms.
# Historical essay on the art of bookbinding/Preface

PREFACE.
Multum legendum est, non multa . . . is the precept of Pliny the Elder, and the invention of the printed book has made it invaluable to the true and worthy bibliophile, whose aim is to obtain possession of the best books in the best editions, not the bibliomaniac’s purpose to pile Pelion on Ossa.
Then, as beneath the dome of a great library lies the temple of refuge for the soul that suggested itself to Osymandyas, King of Egypt, the books of the bibliophile should not be artistically as cold as a Carnac dolmen.
The history of the art of bookbinding is compatible with the history of artistic taste in every country; it progressed gradually with the art of bookmaking; it flourished with the Renascence in France; it fell in ​the Revolutionary era; it is at its height in England, in France and in the United States at present.
To the reader who cares to make a study of it is promised pleasure as well as instruction in the books quoted in the appended bibliography, every one of which has been consulted for the present essay.
H. P. Du B.
# Historical essay on the art of bookbinding/The Catenati

THE CATENATI.
René Boulangé in the “Journal de la Librairie,” and he and the Abbé Valentin Dufour in the “Bibliophile Français,” have written some interesting articles on that ancient custom of enchaining books by the way of a description of the Hereford Library.
The library of the cathedral of Hereford is extant in its primitive state. It contains 236 manuscripts, ​the most ancient of which is a copy in Anglo Saxon of the four Evangelists, bequeathed to the cathedral by Athelstan, the last Saxon bishop of that diocese (1012–1056). The 2,000 volumes of the library are well preserved. Among them is Wyckliffe’s Bible, luxuriously bound; Gerroni “Opera,” 1494; Hartmani “Chronicon,” 1493; Higden’s “Polychronicon,” with additions by William Caxton, 1495.
Every volume is attached to a chain, of such length that the volume may be placed on a desk near at hand, provided at one extremity with an iron-ring for the insertion of a rod, closing with a padlock on either side of the bookcase. It is on the model of all the ancient libraries of chained books; but the exceptional preservation of the Hereford library is explained by the rigid rules of its management; and also, as the Abbé Dufour aptly insinuates, by the fact that Richard de Bury, the illustrious author of the “Philobiblion,” was canon of Hereford. The custom is as old as the fifth century, and prevailed until the last century, as there is a record of the gift to All Saints Church of Hereford of Dr. William Brewster’s library of catenati in 1715; although that is possibly as exceptional a case as the modern one of a chained directory or dictionary in a public place.
​The manuscripts of the Abbey of Saint Victor, in 1308, were attached to desks; the books of Notre Dame of Paris, similarly arranged, were designated in numerical order in the first catalogues. The custom was probably abandoned shortly after the invention of printing, as the catenati of the church of St. Gratien of Tours were a curiosity to Lebrun Desmarettes in the reign of Louis XIV., and scarcer than an uncut Elsevier is in France, a book with the chain-mark of the original catenatus.
These books were not decorated by goldsmiths and enamellers with precious stones and “flower de luce of dyamounts,” nor covered with the enamelled plaques of the town of Limoges, which were of the finest bindings of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but they were of as great luxury of solidity: thick boards, leather-covered, massive ornaments, heavy metalled corners, and frequently with an excavation in the interior of the binding for the reception of a silver crucifix, guarded by a metal door.
An estimate of the weight of such a binding may be formed without reference to the volume of the Epistles of Cicero, now in the Florence Laurentian library; Petrarch’s autograph copy of the work, of such ponderous weight that it severely injured his ​left leg, on which it was habitually made to rest, until the threatened necessity of its amputation compelled his relinquishing the constant reading of his favorite author.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Jeremiah H. Murphey

​ JEREMIAH H. MURPHEY was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, February 19, 1835, was educated in the schools of Boston and after removing to Iowa, graduated at the State University. He read law in Davenport, was admitted to the bar and at once entered upon practice. He was an active Democrat and in 1873 was elected mayor of Davenport. In 1874 he was elected to the State Senate, serving four years. In 1879 he was ​again chosen mayor. In 1882 he was elected to represent the Second District in Congress and was a member of the committees on rivers and harbors and on railroads and canals. On the latter committee he worked faithfully to secure an appropriation for the Hennepin canal. Mr. Murphey was reëlected in 1884, serving four years. He died in Washington on the 11th of December, 1893.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Joel E. Hendricks

​ JOEL E. HENDRICKS, a noted mathematician, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1818. He early developed a love of mathematics and began to teach school at nineteen years of age. He chanced to procure Moore's Navigation and Ostrander's Astronomy and, without instruction, soon became able to work in trigonometry and calculate solar and lunar eclipses. He took up algebra while teaching and soon became master of that science without instruction. He taught mathematics two years in Neville Academy, Ohio, and then occupied a position on a Government survey in Colorado in 1861. In 1864 he located in Des Moines, Iowa and pursued his mathematical studies. In 1874 he began the publication of the Analyst, a journal of pure and applied mathematics and soon won a reputation in Europe among eminent scholars as one of the most advanced mathematicians of the day. His Analyst was taken by the ​colleges and universities of Europe and found a place in the best foreign libraries. His name became famous among all mathematical experts of the world. Among his correspondents were Benjamin Silliman, John W. Draper and James D. Dana; while his journal was authority at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities. For ten years, up to 1884, this world-famous Analyst was published at Des Moines by Dr. Joel E. Hendricks. Up to the time it was discontinued, no journal of mathematics had been published so long in America. It is one of the remarkable events of the Nineteenth Century that a self-educated man should, by his own genius and industry, without instruction, reach such an exalted place among the world's great scholars. Dr. Hendricks died in Des Moines on the 9th of June, 1893.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/James W. McDill

JAMES W. McDILL
​ JAMES W. McDILL was born at Monroe, Ohio, March 4, 1834. He was educated at the South Salem Academy and at Miami University from which he graduated in 1853. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and removed to Union County, Iowa, in 1856. Here he served as county judge one term, was clerk of a Senate committee and clerk in the office of the third auditor at Washington. In 1868 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court and later judge of the District Court. In 1872 he was elected to Congress for the Eighth District, serving two terms. In 1878 he was appointed Railroad Commissioner, serving until March, 1881, when he was appointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by the ​resignation of Kirk wood. The term ended March 4, 1883. Judge McDill was again appointed Railroad Commissioner for three years from April, 1884. He was appointed by President Harrison one of the members of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, which place he held at the time of his death which occurred on the 28th of February, 1894.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Jesse W. Denison

​ JESSE W. DENISON, founder of the county-seat of Crawford County, was born in Albany County, New York, April 9, 1818. His early life was passed on his father's farm and his education begun at the Academy of Schoharie Court House. He entered Union College, graduating in 1844. Later he studied theology in New York City and Covington, Kentucky, graduating in 1846. Mr. Denison came to Crawford County, Iowa, in 1856, as agent for the Providence Western Land Company which, through him, acquired 21,000 acres of land in Crawford, 3,000 in Harrison and 1,000 acres each in Shelby and Pottawattamie counties. He laid out the town of Denison and for many years worked for its interests in securing the county-seat and railroad connections. He organized the Baptist church during the first year and was its pastor until 1863. He was active in the promotion of education and the establishment of schools and for twenty years was untiring in all good work to develop the new country where he had settled. In politics he was a Republican and in 1859 was elected Representative for the district composed of the counties of Crawford, Monona, Carroll and Greene, serving in the regular session of the Eighth General Assembly and the war session of May, 1861.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/James Wilson

JAMES WILSON
​ JAMES WILSON was born at Ayrshire, Scotland, on the 16th of August, 1835, and received an academic education. He came to America in 1851 and took up his residence on a farm in Tama County, Iowa. Mr. Wilson was elected on the Republican ticket in 1867 to the House of the Eleventh General Assembly and served by successive reëlections until 1873. He was Speaker of the House in 1872 and was chosen one of the regents of the State University. He was elected to Congress in the fall of 1872, from the Fifth District and reëlected at the expiration of his first term. In 1884 he was defeated for Congress by Mr. Frederick the Democratic candidate. Mr. Wilson was for many years a writer on farm topics and was chosen Professor of Agriculture at the State Agricultural College at Ames and Director of the Experimental Station. In 1897, upon the ​inauguration of President McKinley, Mr. Wilson was invited into his Cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture. He was reappointed to the same position upon the second inauguration of McKinley. His services in that Department have been generally commended by the public as of greater value to the country than those of any of his predecessors.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Jed Lake

​ JED LAKE was a native of Cortland County, New York, where he was born November 18, 1830. He attended district school winters assisting at farm work during the summers until seventeen years old. His education was continued in New York Central College and a manual training school at McGrawville. He continued his studies at Cortland Academy, supporting himself by teaching. He came to Iowa in 1855, locating at Independence where he studied law and in 1858 was admitted to the bar. In 1861 he was elected Representative in the House of the Ninth General Assembly and in 1862 entered the Union army during the extra session. He was tendered the position of Collector of Internal Revenue, but preferred the military service and soon after was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteers. He participated in the capture of Little Rock, the Red River expedition, Battle of Nashville, and capture of Mobile besides many minor engagements. In 1865 he succeeded to the command of the regiment upon the promotion of Colonel Gilbert. After the war closed Colonel Lake resumed practice at Independence. In another place is given an account of his services in successfully defeating the drive well monopoly, for which the General Assembly of Iowa by passage of joint resolutions tendered to him the thanks of the people for the great service rendered the country in saving millions of dollars in unjust attempts to collect royalties. Colonel Lake was appointed by President Harrison one of the commissioners to appraise 60,000 acres of land in California. He was also one of the commissioners having in charge the building of the Hospital for the Insane at Cherokee.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Jesse B. Browne

​ JESSE B. BROWNE, one of the earliest lawmakers of Iowa, was born in Christian County, Kentucky, early in the Nineteenth Century. ​He removed to Illinois when a young man and commanded a company of Rangers in the Black Hawk War. In August 1833, he was appointed captain in the First Dragoons in the regular army and was stationed at a military post at Montrose in the “Black Hawk Purchase.” In 1837 Captain Browne resigned his commission and settled at Fort Madison. When the Territory of Iowa was established in 1838, he was elected member of the Legislative Council on the Whig ticket and upon its organization was chosen President. He served in the Council four terms and was a member of the House of the Eighth and last Territorial Legislature. After Iowa became a State, Captain Browne was elected to the First General Assembly and was chosen Speaker of the House, serving at a regular and extra session. In 1847 he was nominated for Congress by the Whigs of the First District but was defeated in the election by William Thompson. He became a Brigadier-General of the State militia and was appointed by the President one of the visitors to West Point Military Academy. He was a man six feet seven inches tall, of commanding presence, polished manners and popular. He was the only Iowa legislator ever elected to preside over both branches of the General Assembly. He died in Kentucky in 1864.