Re: Withinside

[David Klappholz <d.klappholz@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

At 02:30 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:

> If it helps at all, as the owner of the book in question I can add that it
> is in the original publisher's Dutch flowered boards, and is complete, i.e.
> there is no possibility of a missing label leaf

Labels supplied in this way, at least at a later date, were not 
attached to or parts of larger leaves, so it's unlikely that you'd be 
able to tell that one was originally there and has gone missing -- 
unless, possibly, you disbound the book and found a very small stub 
of the label in the binding.

Dave

> which once formed part of
> the collation.  In my experience, children's books in Dutch flowered boards
> rarely have printed labels.
>
> I can also confirm that the note "Price six pence, bound, gilt, and
> lettered" appears beneath the imprint and above the "Withinside" note.
>
> James
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