ABSTRACT
The main defect of Padeloup was an insufficient sense of form. The author confess to having fallen into a popular error here, in speaking of Padeloup as though he were a single entity, despite the fact that there were, first and last, twelve of the Padeloups. The Younger Derome was a rapid binder, a merit most rare in those who practise this craft; and he was an honest workman, loyally following the mandates of his customers. Dibdin cries out against Derome again and again, and we cannot but feel that the cutting-iron of the binder had pierced the soul of that travelling book-lover. Nothing could be at once lighter and firmer, and of its kind more charming, than the best of the openwork borders of Derome, solidly tooled on broad morocco.
