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Updated: June 22, 2025
On some books, money has been lavished on the binding to an amount exceeding by many fold the cost of the book itself. Elegant book-binding has come to be reckoned as a fine art, and why should not "the art preservative of all other arts" printing be preserved in permanent and sumptuous, if not splendid style, in its environment?
'Don't you know, at all, how the money has gone? asked Molly. 'No! not at all. That's the sting. There are tailors' bills, and bills for book-binding and wine and pictures that come to four or five hundred; and though this expenditure is extraordinary inexplicable to such simple folk as we are yet it may be only the luxury of the present day.
Louis and Baccarat, the bronzes of other French producers, the vast collection of drawings of ancient and mediaeval monuments and architecture in France, her book-binding and illustration by Bida and Dore, her jewelry and her art-manufactures as a whole. In carriages she had obviously studied the turnouts of American workshops to advantage.
Well, mother, she was feared lest I'd fall into rough ways like, an' she kep' me in a good bit, an' there was a man as helped i' the book-binding she stopped, and then said half under her breath 'His name was Dan'el, Dan'el McGair, it was. 'Go on, Jen. 'He was a leän man and white to look at. He was very pious, and knowed lots o' things.
After a year at this work, he was taken as an apprentice to the book-binding trade, by the same employer, who, on account of his faithful services, remitted the customary premium. At this work he spent some eight years of his life. But far be it from us even to hint at the absence of genius in the young child. Genius is not an acquired gift. It is born in the individual.
For other matters readers will naturally consult some of the numerous manuals of book-binding in English, French and German.
One of them was the devoted John Hunt, who at once volunteered to go to the assistance of Mr Cross, who was already breaking down with his labours at Rewa. With them also came a printer, a printing-press, and book-binding materials.
Last year it was archaeology, the year before, basketry, this year it happened to be eugenics, or something funny like that, next year again it might be book-binding. "So you and your pink and white shepherdess are going off on a little trip together?" she queried banteringly. "The girl's a darling, Lendicott!
We don't want to precipitate matters till we hear from Hewitt, but on the other hand I don't want to sit still as long as anything can be ascertained. You might ask a question about book-binding." "Of course," I said. "If you will let me I'll go at once glad of the chance to get a peep.
The use of cloth, now so universal for book-binding, dates back little more than half a century. About 1825, Mr. Leighton, of London, introduced it as a substitute for the drab-colored paper then used on the sides, and for the printed titles on the backs. The boards are firmly glued to the cloth, the edges of which are turned over the boards, and fastened on the inside of the covers.
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