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House & Garden 
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Collecting the Outsides of a Book 
( Continued, from page 00) 
j But oh, respect his lordship’s taste 
And spare the golden bindings!’’ 
De Witt Miller, genial book-lover of 
revered memory, had inscribed on his 
bookplate these lines: “Let me love the 
insides of books with Dr. Johnson and 
have respect unto their outsides with 
David Garrick.” Charles Lamb wrote: 
“To be strong-bound and neat-backed 
is the desideratum of a volume. Mag¬ 
nificence comes after.” Sometimes it 
comes as it came to the books whereof 
Eugene Field declared 
“My good friend Cox, the sly old fox! 
Has books beyond all number; 
They quite abash the vulgar trash 
Which my poor shelves encumber! 
So clean and fair, so old and rare— 
I wonder where he found 'em? 
And, having got the precious lot, 
How splendidly he’s bound ’em!” 
I think writers of books who find 
j themselves in the company of col¬ 
lectors who care only for editions or 
bindings feel as did Pope, when, in his 
fourth of the Moral Epistles he wrote: 
“In books, not authors, curious is my 
Lord; 
To all their dated backs he turns you 
round; 
These Aldus printed, those Du Sueil has 
bound.” 
I would take a book I loved, dear 
reader, and if it were precariously cased, 
or so displeasing to the eye as to be 
out of tune with the thought of the 
writer, I would give myself the treat of 
having it suitably bound by skilful, 
competent hand. I will grant you that 
a hundred years from now some Biblio 
would prefer to find it just as it had 
come to you in the first place from 
your bookseller, and with pages uncut. 
Well, I fear I take glory in making 
rarities for to-morrow’s Biblios! And 
I am not insensible, either, to the keen 
competition when finely bound books 
come up at Sotheby’s London, at Ander¬ 
son’s, at Libbie’s or at the American 
Art Association sales in this country. 
I would make rarities either way for 
the delectation of the future! 
Books and Their Binders 
| What rich pleasures await the book- 
, lover who starts forth on the venture 
of having some of his best beloved 
books put in bindings worthy their 
adornment! Perhaps he will be led to 
turn to some such volume as Herbert 
P. Horne's “Book Binding,” now inex¬ 
pensively reprinted and within reach 
of everyone, to the interesting little 
The Printed Book with its chapter on 
Bookbinding and Bookbinders in the 
Cambridge Manuals series, a little hand¬ 
book costing less than a dollar, and to 
other volumes of binding lore. These 
will give him the history of the craft. 
Therein he will learn how the art of 
gold tooling was brought to Venice 
from the East and how it led to the 
great distinction achieved by the bind¬ 
ers of the late 15 th and the early 16th 
Century, how Morocco leather was then 
introduced, how Jean Grolier, a 
Frenchman, and Tommaso Maioli, an 
Italian, became famous as patrons 
paramount of the Italian binders, each 
adopting a distinctive style, how Gro- 
lier’s return to his native land in 1529 
gave impetus to fine binding in France, 
how Italian binding deteriorated to¬ 
wards the end of the 16th Century, 
how Francis I, Catherine de Medici 
and a long line of royal personages fol¬ 
lowing them encouraged the art, how 
Nicolas and Clovis Eve bound for 
Henry III, who died in 1589, and Pade- 
loupe le jeune bound for Madame de 
Pompadour, how Thomas Berthelet, 
printer and stationer to Henry VIII, 
was the first English binder to employ 
gold tooling, how Queen Elizabeth had 
an especial liking for embroidered bind¬ 
ings, how James I preferred velvet 
ones, how Samuel Mearne, binder to 
Charles II, became the most celebrated 
English binder of his century and all 
the other fascinating “hows” of the 
subject. 
How rich, too, is the work of the 
binders of the 19th and of this 20th 
Century—Zaehnsdorf, Riviere, Cobden- 
Sanderson, Prideaux, Cockerell and 
Bedford in England, Ruban, Meunier, 
Gruel, Michel, Cuzin, Canope, Lortic 
and Wiener in France and the master- 
binders of America, Blackwell, Cox, 
Stikeman, Mathews, to name but a few 
of the names of those famous for this 
craft in Europe and America—would 
that one might have a book from the 
hand of each! What a pleasure it would 
he if we, too, now and then, might 
echo the words of good old Samuel 
Pepys, written August 28, 1666,— 
“Comes the bookbinder to gild the 
backs of my books.” 
Plants Useful for Attracting Fruit- 
Eating Birds 
A LARGE variety of shrubs and 
trees are cultivated for ornament 
in the United States, but in most 
cases it is evident that they have been 
planted with no thought for the needs 
of birds. Our native shrubs should be 
utilized as far as possible, especially as 
many of them are not exceeded in beauty 
or interest by foreign plants. Further¬ 
more, as a rule they are more attractive 
to birds than exotics. It should be borne 
in mind also that smoothly trimmed 
hedges and the stiff trees of a formal 
garden are not nearly so attractive to 
birds as untrained bushes and tangled 
thickets. Shrubs of sterile varieties or 
those closely pruned after blooming are 
not sought by birds, while those al¬ 
lowed to ripen fruit are often crowded 
with feathered visitors. Moreover, plants 
clustered with fruit of varying color 
are more beautiful and interesting than 
those which exhaust their energy in one 
burst of bloom and are of monotonous 
appearance thereafter. 
The best shrubs and trees for attract¬ 
ing birds are those most resorted to for 
food, and the extensive records of bird 
food in the Biological Survey make their 
selection an easy task. The berries of 
elders ( Sambucus) are eaten by the 
largest number of species of birds, name¬ 
ly, 67. Raspberries and blackberries 
(Rubus) are known to be eaten by 60 
species, mulberries (Morus) by 48, 
dogwood fruits ( Cornus) by 47, those 
of the nonpoisonous sumacs (Rhus) 
by 44, the various wild cherries (Prunus) 
by 39, and blueberries (Vaccinium) by 
37. This completes the list of fruits 
known to be chosen by more than 30 
species of birds. Following these in or¬ 
der are wild grapes (Vitis), eaten by 
29 species; pokeberries (Phytolacca ), by 
26; Virginia creeper berries (Psedera), 
bayberries (Myrica), and juniper berries 
(Juniperus), by 25 species each; service 
or June berries (Amelanchier ), by 20; 
Hollyberries (Ilex) by 19; strawberries 
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