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House & Garden 
Collecting the Outsides of a Book 
ANTIQUES 
FURNITURE 
REPRODUCTIONS 
FACTORY 
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INTERIOR. DECORATIONS 
DRAPERIES 
FLOOR COVERINGS 
DECORATIVE OBJECTS 
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bibliophilic firma¬ 
ment to fall into 
my welcoming lap! 
On the other hand, 
with editions of 
books that are 
friends, books for 
which I care for 
their own dear 
sakes, and do not, 
as might a profes¬ 
sional charity visi¬ 
tor find most tract¬ 
able when in their 
poor dress, with 
such editions I re¬ 
serve the right, the 
pleasure and the 
privilege of clothing 
them in more fitting 
garb. And so you 
will find them, if 
the time ever 
comes that I can do 
any of the things 
I would like to do. 
Is a Binding a 
Luxury ? 
There is some 
solace in the thought 
that the binding of 
a book is not the ex¬ 
cessive luxury many 
suppose it to be un¬ 
less the book is 
bound with exces¬ 
sive luxuriousness. 
For my own part, I 
would find little if any joy in the over¬ 
elaboration that seems to indicate orna¬ 
ment travelling in one direction while 
the text is travelling in the other. Print 
and binding should 
go hand in hand, 
pleasant companions 
to the thought they 
help perpetuate, 
each in its way. 
Some books there 
are which invite 
simplicity of treat¬ 
ment on the part of 
the binder; others 
can make merry 
with the cover’s 
contents, and still 
other bindings may 
be permitted to give 
hint of what is to 
be found within, as 
with a volume on 
the history of 
miniatures whose 
binding might 
chance to have an 
actual miniature in¬ 
set on the front 
cover. Beyond that 
I would not go. I 
think the true 
book-lover knows 
where to draw the 
line. He will not, 
you may be sure, 
tempt some modern 
wit to imitate 
Robert Burns who 
wrote on the fly¬ 
leaf of an elaborate¬ 
ly bound book the 
following shaft: 
and through the inspired 
leaves, 
Ye maggots, make your windings; 
(Continued on page 92) 
Two bindings from the 
library of Jean Grolier 
‘‘Through 
* 
Cross. 
Curve (double). 
Curve (single). 
Curve (vandylced)j 
Curve (beaded). 
Curve (plain). 
Curve (foliated) 
Rosette (8 lobes). 
of Le Gascon). 
Curve (Mcarne style). 
Curve (" S " curve). 
Curve (sometimes 
doubled so : 
to produce a 
Cui ve (with foliated foot). 
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Rosette (8 lobes). 
Rosette (8 lobes). 
Rosette (8 lobes). 
Rosette (8 lobes). 
Rosette (6 lobes). 
Rosette (4 lobes). 
Rosette (4 lobes). 
Rosette (4 lobes). 
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Rosette (4 lobes). 
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FLORAL. 
* 
Ragged Robir 
Rose. 
Rose (dotted). 
Rose. 
* 
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Rose. • 
Spray. 
Spray. 
Anemone. 
Clematis. 
Daisy. 
Roger Payne's Stamps: Conventional. 
Roger Payne's Stamps: Floral 
The marks of the book-binder's tools 
