El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-23
BOOKS AND THEIR BINDINGS ARE DISCUSSED:
MISS DARBYShIRE Welded TO C. C. STEVENS

DOOKS and their bindings We're the
discussion topic of a most in
teresting meeting of the art de-
partment of the Woman's club. held
Wednesday afternoon in the audi
torium of the First Christian church
Mrs A. S. J. Eylar gave a most COM
prehensive review Of the history and
development of the art of Illuminating.
This was first confined to Illuminating
the capital letters only, but. later de-
Veloped into a margin decoration OF
each mage. The first known illumina-
tor was a Greek woman who did her
work upon ivory in the first century
after Christ Mrs. Eylar told how the
work of Illuminating was taken up by
the mOnaSter1eS and these developed
into scriptoriums. where the monks
spent their time illuminating The
workers were divided into three
groups, those who made the patterns
in the ink. then those who filled in the
colors. and then those who worked in
the gold leaf From the scriptorium,
the library developed The first scrip
forum in monastery was founded in
517 in a monastery in southern Italy.
The work Of Illuminating differed in
various countries. The Italians used
gold iaYishily in their work and the
in the development of their illuminat-
ing. The monks in the English mon
asteries printed religious books solely,
but in the other cOun tries secular
books were Illuminated in the mOnas-
teries. The workers. scribes, painters
and binders. ranked with professors
pageants. The Anglo-Saxon races used
great amount Of silver as well as
gold IN their illuminations.
Mrs R. E Thomson spoke on the
modern art of book binding She dis
cusssd the changes of styles and ma
terialS in the binding OF books in an
interesting way She spoke of the sup
planting Of the hand work BY machin-
a Gnfd he
same style Of sewing and rounding the
backs was used by modern bookbinders
as the first book binders employed
She illustrated her talk by number OF
books.
Mrs D. Y. Fennessy was in charge
OF the book exhibition 1t included an
Old first EDITION Of Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress that sold for penny, being
published by the Book Society of Lon
don, 50 that every Sunday scholar
might have a copy. The book is the
property OF Mrs. 5 n. James. A num-
Der of other old interesting books be-
longing to Mrs James were exhibited I
including an old geography published
IN 1907: a dictionary used in the New
Hampshire schools, published in 1918: a
wooden back speller published in 1920, /
and story book published in 1927 ?
The Oldest book exhibited was a
psaLler, written IN Latin and Hebrew,
published in 17O5. Three Blackstones /
published in 1900 were exhibited by ]
Mrs S. NJ James.
A hand illumined book was exhibited /
by mrs. A P. Averill Mrs W r Brown 4
exhibited an illuminated book from the
Roycrofr shops. A number of books
we're exhibited by the library and local
Mrs S. H Sutherland spoke on the
wonderfully i0umined religious books.
work OF the 18th and 18th centuries.
that may be seen in the cathedral of
Mexico City.
At the completion Of the program
Slrs- BSIes Hughes Evans sang, with
Mrs ". P Brown pIavine her nisro
accompaniment !
At the business meeting held before