The bookbinders shop. Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark – Antique Wall Art
![The bookbinders shop. Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b9c39e35aee5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of The bookbinders shop. Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The bookbinders shop. Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark
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Most pictures on this board show the outside of a book or a bookseller's front, but this one shows the inside of a working bindery, drawn from the premises of Messrs. Westleys & Clark, a London bookbinding firm. The scene lets you see how a bound book was made by hand, with separate benches for folding, sewing, covering, and finishing the gilt tooling on the spine and boards. The record does not give a date or a confirmed artist, so the exact year is uncertain. The title's wording suggests a drawing made from life and then reproduced as a print, a common method for showing trades in 19th-century illustrated periodicals and books.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brechemin, L. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,323 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114307 |
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