Sketches and Biographical Notices of Binders, Amateur Professors, and Others, Connected with the Art.

The binders here at that period were considered superior woikmen, but of the personal history of this man, nothing is known. The reputation of the binders of France, at one time far exceeded that of any other country. To trace, with anything like distinctness, the lives of many distinguished professors of the Bibliopegistic art, is a task that cannot be accomplished, many being known only by the talent and skill of their workmanship. The sums necessary to be disbursed for the designs on the books, whereon their names appear, could have been the case had they been men of some note in their profession; and though positively nothing can be pronounced, still it is not an unfair presumption to consider them as first-rate artists of the times in which the flourished.