The following Treatise, in which will be found a variety of new, interesting, and valuable information, it is trusted, will supply a great desideratum; no work relative to the Art of Bookbinding having been published in this country, that can be placed in the hands of the workman, calculated to assist him in the most important manipulations of his Art.

To render it of the greatest utility, the utmost care has been taken to give the most clear and comprehensive directions, in every department of the various processes required in binding a book, from the folding to the final operation; and though some slight imperfections may have crept in, from the difficulty attendant on the investigation of a subject, respecting which little information could be derived from previous writers, it will be found that nothing has been omitted that could render the work as complete as possible. To this end, in addition to his own practical knowledge of the Art, the Author has availed himself of the communications of the best Workmen, and also of such parts of the productions of M. Dudin, M. Lesne, M. Normand, M. Mairet, &c, as experience has proved useful in practice.

Difference of opinion will doubtless arise as to the propriety of making known the more difficult operations of the Art; but Science never lost by its general diffusion, and the clever workman will ever retain the elevated position which his taste, ingenuity, and attention entitle him to.