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2025 Set Book Interviews with North Bennet Street School Graduating Class

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Erin Fletcher
Fri, May 16, 2025 12:00 PM

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the cross-posting.

I'm delighted to announce that the Set Book Interviews that I conducted
with the graduating class at North Bennet Street School have just been
published. This is my 13th year doing this and I look forward to it every
time! Click link below to find the interviews:

https://tinyurl.com/3ucf3cpv

The set book for this year’s graduating class was The Poetical Vagaries of
a Knight of the Folding-Stick, of Paste-Castle
. Note: you will find
several variations of this title on the student’s bindings. Many
bookbinders may be familiar with the poem The Binder’s Curse, which was
part of a collection of poetry written by John Bradford. First published in
1815, this series of bookbinding-related poems were written by a journeyman
bookbinder based in New York City. Many students commented about the
delight in being a bookbinder binding a book about bookbinding as one of
their final projects in the bookbinding program.

Enjoy and please send any warm comments straight to the binders themselves.

Thanks,
Erin Fletcher

Hello everyone, Sorry for the cross-posting. I'm delighted to announce that the Set Book Interviews that I conducted with the graduating class at North Bennet Street School have just been published. This is my 13th year doing this and I look forward to it every time! Click link below to find the interviews: https://tinyurl.com/3ucf3cpv The set book for this year’s graduating class was *The Poetical Vagaries of a Knight of the Folding-Stick, of Paste-Castle*. Note: you will find several variations of this title on the student’s bindings. Many bookbinders may be familiar with the poem *The Binder’s Curse*, which was part of a collection of poetry written by John Bradford. First published in 1815, this series of bookbinding-related poems were written by a journeyman bookbinder based in New York City. Many students commented about the delight in being a bookbinder binding a book about bookbinding as one of their final projects in the bookbinding program. Enjoy and please send any warm comments straight to the binders themselves. Thanks, Erin Fletcher