Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Taste in Book-Binding

It would be foreign to the purpose of this little treatise, were I to detail the history, or to discuss the art of Bookbinding. My object is rather to speak of it as connected with taste; to point out the various anomalies that are most frequent in it, and to assist the book-collector in forming a correct judgment on such matters. So numerous are these incongruities, that to detail one half of them would be to tax too severely the indulgence of my readers.

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