Note 15 — OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS OF BOOKS.

Advertisements should generally be preserved. If, however, a book has been through a binder’s hands there is little chance of their surviving. Never send a book to the binder without special instructions to preserve the advertisements and covers or wrappers, and mark every page intended to be kept, otherwise there is a barbarous custom amongst binders, arising from ignorance or cupidity, of denuding every pamphlet of the covers and advertisements which frequently teem with matter useful in after years. Binders like to treat books like convicts, and shave their heads.