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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, containinga clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice. ByAndrew Ure, M.D., c. c. To be completed in TenMonthly Parts, icilh upwards of one thousand Engravingson Wood. Part III. London: Longman and Co.The third Part of this very important work is now before us, and well deserves every word of approbation which we have bestowed on its predecessors. It is, indeed, to the student in his library, as well as to those more immediately concerned in its contents, a most valuable and much-needed work. We give the following remarks on “ Cloth-binding,” as interesting to our numerous clerical and literary readers :—*“ Cloth Binding.—Nothing places in so striking a point of view the superior taste, judgment, and resources of London tradesmen over those of the rest: of the world, than the extensive substitution which they have recently made of embossed silks and calicoes for leather in the binding of books. In old libraries, cloth-covered boards indeed may occasionally be setn, but they have the meanest aspect, and are no more to be compared with our modern cloth-binding, than the jtipoii of a trull, with the ballet dress of Taglitni. The silk or calico may be dyed of any shade which use or fancy may require, impressed with gold or silver foil in every form, and variegated by ornaments in relief, copied from the most beautiful productions in nature. This new style of binding is distinguished not more for its durability, elegance, and variety, than for the economy and dispatch with which it ushers the offspring of intellect into the world. For example, should a house eminent in this line, such as that of Westleys, Friar-street, Doctors’-eommons, receive 500o volumes from Messrs. Longman andJCo. upon Monday morning, they can have them ail ready for publication, within the incredibly short period of two days ; being far sooner than they Cuuld have rudely boarded them upon the former plaH. The reduction of price is not the least advantage incident to the new method, amounting to fully 50 per cent, upon mat with leather.“ The dyed cloth being cut by a pattern to the size suited to the volume, 13 passed rapidly through a roller press, between engraved cylinders of hard streel, whereby it receives at once the impress characteristic of the back, and the sides, along with embossed designs over the surface in sharp relief. The cover thus rapidly fashioned, is as rapidly applied by paste to the stitched and pressed volume ; no time being lost ia mutual adjustments ; since the steel rollers turn off the former, of a shape precisely adapted to the latter. Hard glazed and varnished calico is moreover much less an object of depredation to moths, and other iusects, than ordinary leather has been found to be.’'As a specimen of the most beautiful cloth-binding ever “ turned out,” the Keepsake, published by the “ leading house,” Messrs. Longman and Co., surpasses everything we ever saw of the art of cloth, or rather silk, binding. It is bound in rich crimson silk, elegantly ornamented with gold devices, and forming beyond dispute the most beautiful of all the annuals. Its extermr is indeed well worthy of its highly-tinished engravings and most interesting literary articles. For a Christmas present or the drawing-room table, it cannot be excelled.
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London Conserbatibe Journal and Church of England Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Nov 10, 1838
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