Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sister Arts, or a Concise and Interesting View of the Nature and History of Paper-Making, Printing and Bookbinding: Being Designed to Unite Entertainment With Information Concerning Those Arts, With Which the Cause of Literature Is Peculiarly Connected
The object of'the Editor of fliis little book'is' to combine instruction wit/r entertainment. The subjeetf; wlucft me new chosen, 'it'is premuie'd} are interesting. It has been 'lzis'dim to satisfy a laudable curiosity by pointing out the origin, progress, and nature of those arts which are' intimately connected wzt'h the muse y literature and whilst it Izas been his aim to communicate useful in formation, he has endeavoured to do it in such a manner, as to pre vent it, he trusts; from becoming.
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