My 1799 Johnson's Dictionary defines "withinside" as "in the interior
parts." Gaskell, New Introduction to Bibliography, p. 153 notes that "from
the 1780s printed labels were sometimes stuck on the spines of boarded
books, being supplied by the printer on a spare leaf."
Farley Katz
San Antonio, TX
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From: "James Burmester" <james.burmester@BTCONNECT.COM>
To: <EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:23 AM
Subject: [EXLIBRIS] Withinside
I am cataloguing a 1785 children's book published by John Marshall of
London
in about 1785. On the title-page, beneath the imprint and the price
appear
the words "N.B. The lettering of this book is withinside." Doubtless this
is a question to which any professional librarian or bookseller will know
the answer, but I don't, and I should be most grateful if someone can tell
me (off-list unless they think the answer might be of general interest)
what
this phrase means.
James Burmester
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