True, Dickens, Dumas and Stevenson were tolerably well-thumbed; but the host of thinkers and poets and dramatists and theologians, in their hand-tooled Levant .
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
The previous week clean muslin curtains had been put up, and the week before there was a new cover over the little table in the window upon which lay the big History of England which Mrs Sarson had taken in, or been taken in with, in shilling numbers, by a book canvasser, and had bound afterwards for one pound fifteen and sixpence, gilt lettered, and blind tooled, the canvasser had said.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
But from the library of Raxton Hall I brought my father's own copy, elaborately bound in the tooled black calf my father affected.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton