Curiosa: The Perils of Hasty Binding
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nebroadweAn advertisement on the verso of the half-title of Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers Which Are Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church from the Earliest Ages Through Several Successive Centuries:
ADDENDUM: It seems to be a day for sloppy printing and binding. On the front pastedown of a slightly charred copy of several early nineteenth-century American religious pamphlets debating "the question of a personal assurance of pardon of sin by a direct communication of the Holy Spirit" ("Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to forgive you!") an irked former owner complains that said pamphlets "by mistake of ye Binder have been put in a wrong order" and explains how they should be arranged.
Dec. 12. 1748.He's just sayin'.
Dr. Middleton's Free Inquiry &c. having been printed in such hast, and at such a season of the year, that the sheets have not had sufficient time to dry, it is thought proper to give this notice to Gentlemen, not to have their books bound in less than two months or they will run the hazard of having them spoiled.
ADDENDUM: It seems to be a day for sloppy printing and binding. On the front pastedown of a slightly charred copy of several early nineteenth-century American religious pamphlets debating "the question of a personal assurance of pardon of sin by a direct communication of the Holy Spirit" ("Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to forgive you!") an irked former owner complains that said pamphlets "by mistake of ye Binder have been put in a wrong order" and explains how they should be arranged.