NEW-INVENTED IMPROVED METHOD OF BINDING ALL SORTS OF BOOKS
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
WILLIAMS and JOSEPH WILLIAMS, of Holywell Street, in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes, in the City and Liberty of Westminster, Stationers, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of November, in the fortieth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto us, the said John Williams and Joseph Williams, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence that we, the said
John Williams and Joseph Williams, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, our "NEW-INVENTED IMPROVED METHOD OF BINDING ALL
SORTS OF BOOKS;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging us, the said John Williams and Joseph Williams, under our hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
John Williams and Joseph Williams, do hereby declare that our said Invention
consists of a back of a semi-curcular, semi-oval, or any other semi or curved
form, turned a little at the edges, made of iron, steel, copper, brass, tin, or any
other metal, ivory, bone, wood, vellum, paper, leather, or any other material

page_text: capable of retaining a firm situation; which back being put on the book before
bound, in that manner so as just to cover over (but not to press) the edges of
the paper, will, when the book is opened, prevent it spreading on either side,
and cause it to rise in any part to nearly a level surface. If necessary (though
by no means essential), the vacuity from the firm back to the angle of the
paper may be hid by a cap at each end, made of the aforesaid or any other
material, with a spring catch to fasten within the back, for which purpose
the back must be sufficiently large to admit the cap, so as to prevent the paper
being fretted against, and tin or some other matter placed over the catches.
The above firm back, turned at the edges to cause freedom in opening all
sorts of books, is for which this Patent is obtained.
The method we use in binding books is as follows:-The paper forwarded
in the usual manner, sewed on vellum slips, glewed, cut, clothed, and boarded
(or half boarded), and the firm back put on by being fastened at the sides
through holes by vellum, or secured by inclosing it in vellum, forrell wrappers,
or other matter, pasted down upon or drawn through the boards; and the
other half the board pasted over, the cover put on, and book finished.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Williams and Joseph Williams,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-third day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-nine.
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JOHN WILLIAMS. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of...
JOSEPH WILLIAMS. (L.S.)
GEORGE WILLIAMS.
ROBERT PURYER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that the same Twenty-third day of Novem-
ber, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Williams and Joseph
Williams came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
above written. And also the Specification' aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.