What is a Bookbinder?
” About 60 people attended to hear panelists Bill Anthony, Betsy Eldridge, Bill Minter and Sylvia Rennie and Moderator Robert Kerns, a bibliophile and reporter for the Chicago Tribune. The event was sponsored by the Friends of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. The moderator began the discussion by asking each of the panelists how they received their education, what developed their tenacity and what qualities characterized them as bookbinders. Mr. Anthony was the first to answer, replying that be had been offered a job at his father’s bindery. He realized the physical work, the craft, the ambition he could devote himself to in the trade and deriving great pleasure from this first experience, has not changed or looked back. At the time he started working there, he had no vision of what he would do with his life and feels fortunate to have found his niche early. Ms. Eldridge was attending Wellesley College when she took inspiration from a lecture by Hannah French on bookbinding. This lec
