Title
Bookbinder, from "De keus uit twaalf ambachten, ter vermijding van dertien ongelukken" (The choice of twelve trades for the avoidance of thirteen accidents), Amsterdam, 1829
Creator
Portielje, Gerrit (drukker/printer)
Year
[1829]
Type
prent, print
Measurements
9,5 x 5,5 cm. (prentje) 16 x 19, 5 cm. (opening)
Related term
boekbinden, kinderboeken
Period
19e eeuw
Classification
F: Bindkunst, D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst
Content
Here is Willem, one of the boys in this book who are looking for a suitable trade, apprenticed to a bookbinder. He is sitting on the sewing bench, 'where he is bored to tears'. Working on the lapstone i.e. beating a book flat which is what the boy on the left is doing, also did not appeal to him: 'he had for a long time found [it] to be much more difficult than trimming whereby, of course, the weight of the hammer was the primary cause and also the same movement each time required as much strength as speed and suppleness of arm and hand'. In the form of an agreeable story the trade of bookbinding, which was not for Willem, was explained.
Original
De keus uit twaalf ambachten, ter vermijding van dertien ongelukken. - Amsterdam: G. Portielje, [1828], p. 52 en t.o.p. 52
available in
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 1087 G 6
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek