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5/28/01

TALK ON CLOTH-BOUND BOOKS SCHEDULED AT SLU

CANTON -- A slide lecture titled "Visually Appealing: Cloth-Bound 
Books 1830-1860" will be given by Todd Pattison, associate conservator 
of the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts, 
on Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. in Owen D. Young Library at St. Lawrence 
University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	When cloth was first introduced as a binding material in 
America, around 1830, it was not very well received by literary critics 
or the general public. Using slides of cloth books from this time period, 
Pattison will explore the ways that bookbinders and publishers attempted 
to make cloth bindings more appealing to buyers. He will focus on ways 
that cloth was treated prior to being glued on covers, while also noting 
some of the techniques that binders employed to decorate the cloth after 
the cases had been constructed. Although many of the cloth treatments 
lasted less than 10 years, they offer a fascinating look at how publishers 
began marketing and selling books based on their visual appeal.

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