Excerpt from The Essentials of Good Binding: A Lecture Delivered Before the Massachusetts Library Club

The following lecture was delivered before the Librarians' Club of Massachusetts, at their meeting in Lowell.

Mr. McNamee has received so many requests for copies that he has put it in this form. The text is taken from a report contained in the Cambridge Tribune.

"One of the most interesting papers read before the Massachusetts Library Club at Lowell was that of Mr. John H. H. McNamee of this city, bookbinder to the University. His subject was: 'The Essentials of Good Binding.' Mr. McNamee had made preparations to explain his lecture by bringing with him, as nearly as possible, a complete lay-out of bookbinders' materials and implements.

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