C19 Bookbinding Session

• c18 paper wrappers - 1734 French recuil de pouesies prouvencalos (Berte, 1734)
  • glued to spine
  • quires sown so as to be easily removed - utilitarian
• Appel au Tribunal de l'Opinion Publique, Mounier (1790 Geneva)
  • trimmed deckle edges: decided to be "final" binding
  • des bib useful for understanding how it came off the press
  • color of paper from rag content - not dyed (bluish grey, lighter grey)