And Lett me not from them depart."
S. Wiswould.
Vellum-bound Books.—In a list of thirty books printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, and issued in 1773, I find the phrase two volumes bound in one in the vellum manner in seven instances; also, four volumes bound in two in the vellum manner; and, six volumes bound in three in the vellum manner. In other cases we have only the word bound or sewed. I have a suspicion that the phrase in the vellum manner may have some obsolete meaning; and submit this note to the consideration of those who are in search of a vellum-bound Junius.
Bolton Corney.
Queries.
THOMAS GILL, THE BLIND MAN OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY.
Putting in order this morning a mass of pamphlets, which my women-kind threaten to sweep into the kitchen unless more tidily kept, I came upon a few poetical tracts by "Thomas Gill, the Blind Man of St. Edmundsbury." Not having had any previous acquaintance with this poetical moralist, I have looked over the lot; but beyond the above description of himself upon their titles, they afford little information regarding their author.
There is, however, proof, in The Blind Man's Case at London, 1711, that Gill was a character in his day. In what he loftily calls "The Argument" to these eight pages of doggrel, he says: