BIB_ID
232746
Accession number
MA 5079
Creator
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
Display Date
1901 February 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.6 x 14.0 cm
Notes
Removed from a copy of the 1926 edition of Cobden-Sanderson's journals (PML 48240-41).
Written on the letterhead of "The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall Hammersmith W."
Written on the letterhead of "The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall Hammersmith W."
Provenance
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Summary
Detailing terms of an apprenticeship in his bindery; offering to take her on in July for one year; stipulating that it would pay £100 for the year, the bindery would supply all materials and tools but the bound book would "...remain the prop'ty of the Bindery;" adding that daily attendance is required except for holidays and Saturday afternoons and "...above all I expect my pupils to devote themselves thoroughly to their work;" concluding with "I assume that you are proposing to learn for your own pleasure. If, however, you have your 'living' in view then I would advise you not to come to me. Bookbinding is not a remunerative craft--it is remunerative only at a very great cost & in consequence of some special gift which is perhaps rather born with one than acquired."
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