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Updated: October 5, 2024
The Ferrar family at Little Gidding were the inventors of 'pasting-printing, as they called their barbarous mode of embellishment; and Charles I. himself, in Laud's presence, called their largest scrap-book 'the Emperor of all books, and 'the incomparablest book this will be, as ever eye beheld. The huge volume made up for Prince Charles out of pictures and scraps of text was joyfully pronounced to be 'the gallantest greatest book in the world. The practice of 'grangerising, or stuffing out an author with prints and pages from other works, was even praised by Dibdin as 'useful and entertaining, though in our own time it is rightly condemned as a malpractice.
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