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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 463392, member: 56&quot;]Just a bit of show and tell. (My library has been boxed and stuffed, helter-skelter, in a closet for decades.&nbsp; I&#039;m just now hauling things out and going through them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>William Roscoe</p><p>Life of Lorenzo de Medici</p><p>Joseph Engelmann, Heidelberg, 1825</p><p><br /></p><p>The pages have deckle edges and can vary in width upwards of 1/2&quot;.&nbsp; The signatures (clusters of pages) are minimally sewn to hold the everything together.&nbsp; The cover is a simple sheet of printed brown paper.&nbsp; I believe this is what a dealer would term &quot;in original wraps&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is how you would purchase a book at that time.&nbsp; You would take it to your bookbinder who would sew it together properly, trim it to size, and supply a cover matching the other books in your library.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]158893[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]158894[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]158895[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>(The book was originally published in 1795.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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