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Updated: June 4, 2025
As for the book-binder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and gilded on the backs and titlepages of many books both old and new that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.
The books given to the present biographer by "his affectionate friend, Clive Newcome," still bear on the titlepages the marks of that boyish hand and youthful fervour. He had a copy of Walter Lorraine bound and gilt with such splendour as made the author blush for his performance, which has since been seen at the bookstalls at a price suited to the very humblest purses.
Could I have been two separate persons at one and the same time, of whom one might have been devoted to Cornhill and the other to the interests of the firm in Piccadilly, it might have been very well; but as I preserved my identity in both places, I myself became aware that my name was too frequent on titlepages.
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