Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ugh the leaves ofa book, even though the process involvesthe snipping away of the entire marginand occasionally of a portion of the au-thors text, is so well known to the fra-ternity of book-collectors as to have be-come proverbial. Listen to friendThomass timely word of caution uponthis vital point! The Directions to the Binder in theElegiac Sonnets and Other Poems byCharlotte Smith., published by Thomasat Worcester, Massachusetts, in , in addition to careful instruc-tions for the placing of the plates, thisadmonition to the binder:
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ugh the leaves ofa book, even though the process involvesthe snipping away of the entire marginand occasionally of a portion of the au-thors text, is so well known to the fra-ternity of book-collectors as to have be-come proverbial. Listen to friendThomass timely word of caution uponthis vital point! The Directions to the Binder in theElegiac Sonnets and Other Poems byCharlotte Smith., published by Thomasat Worcester, Massachusetts, in , in addition to careful instruc-tions for the placing of the plates, thisadmonition to the binder: Cut theBook As Large Each Way As It willBear. These directions of old Father Isa-iah, with the addition of a short post-script to the effect, Avoid WheneverPossible Any Use of the Knife,might well be engrossed in capital lettersand hung upon the wall of every book-binders shop in the land. This biblio-pegistic principle should be impressedwith emphasis upon the mind of everyapprentice to the art of bookbinding asone of the axioms of his I HIH1HH1 ^^IHH ./y/,//.,„s,Y*„,/,/,„ /y Early American Bookbinding 65 Thomas states in his advertisementthat the paper upon which the ElegiacSonnets of Charlotte Smith is printed isa new business in America, and but late-ly introduced into Great Britain; it is thefirst manufactured by the editor. Hefurther informs us that the plates wereexecuted, not by European engravers books in a variety of styles pursuant tothe notice he inserted at the foot of thegreen paper covers, in which the monthlyparts of the Royal American Magazine,edited and published by him and JosephGreenleaf, were issued, to wit: Book-binding performed in all its brancheswith great care and cheap.
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