A METHOD OR APPA- RATUS FOR THE PRESERVATION OR PROTECTION OF BOOKS AND COVERS
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
Br, of Ivy Cottage, Ivory Place, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Stationer
and Bookseller, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato
at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of April, in the fifth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William By, His especial licence that I, the said William By, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William By, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times 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, my Invention of "A METHOD OR APPA-
RATUS FOR THE PRESERVATION OR PROTECTION OF BOOKS AND COVERS ;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William
By, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William By, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the following description thereof (that is to say):-
They are generally made of leather in different sizes to suit every description
of books; each cover is lined with velvet, leather, paper, or such other material
as fancy may direct. Between the lining and its cover is passed a ribbon or
tape having at each end a spring and clasp; the clasp being so formed as to
catch the edges of the boards in which the books are bound or placed; within
the cover a loop is formed to admit a book between its leaves, which can be
drawn tight and fastened at the back by a button, buckle, or loop, which
fastening may be varied according to fancy. The covers may be used with or
without the loop. Many other materials may be used besides those enumerated,
(viz.,) parhment, vellum, silk, satin, cloth, &c., &c., according to fancy. They
may also be made without lining. Each cover can have one or more pairs of
springs, and clasp covers made without a lining throughout must have the
springs passed under a strip of leather or any other material suitable for that
purpose, leaving room for the proper action of the springs.
In witness whereof, I, the said William By, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
WILLIAM (L.S.) BY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid William By came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four