[Hardy-l] Hardy and bookbinders

[Betty Cortus]

I'm afraid I don't have a good answer to your question Nicholas,  but  
Sydney Cockerell's unpublished diaries, which do contain references  
to Hardy, are housed in the British Library, and could possibly  
contain some of the information you are seeking.

Betty Cortus
hardycor at owl.csusm.edu


On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:12 AM, N.R. Robinson wrote:

>
> I am interested to find out if Hardy used any bookbinders. I am  
> particularly interested in the manuscript of Jude the Obscure at  
> the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Fitzwilliam also has the  
> manuscript of Times Laughing Stocks, both given by Hardy via Sydney  
> Cockerell. Cockerell had the latter bound by his favourite binder  
> Katharine Adams. I wish to confirm whether Jude was actually bound  
> by Hardy himself and wonder if anyone might have any information on  
> this.
>
> There is a stamp by the binder in Jude: "Bound by J. Larkin[s?]".  
> It is a standard binding - half bound in blue leather with marbled  
> sides and endpages, gilt ornamentation on spine and gilt edged  
> pages. Have any other Hardy manuscripts been bound by this binder  
> or in a similar manner ? I would also like to find further  
> information about this binder. The only reference I have found so  
> far is to a Jeremiah Larkins based mainly at Hatton Gardens,  
> London, his dates as a binder being recorded as 1881-1901. I would  
> like to confirm whether this would definitely be the same binder or  
> whether there may be other possible binders.
>
> I would appreciate any assistance.
>
> Nicholas Robinson
>
>
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