S C Toof and Company

• American

• Bookbinding

S C Toof and Company was a notable American printing company based in Memphis, Tennessee. - AsNotedIn

Among the more recent expositions in which art bindings were shown, there is perhaps none more interesting than the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St Louis, which will be open until December the first. It is here that many of the bindings ... are shown in all their splendor. That they were found worthy of occupying a space in the Fine Arts Building proves beyond a doubt their high standard and artistic quality.

That they were designed and bound in the Toof Bindery shows that among the firms of art binders in the United States none are more competent than they in the realm of art binding. They have no superior in the happiness of design and the perfection of finish of the books turned out by them. Mr Zahn, of this firm, under whose personal direction the art binding is done, loves book binding and in his earlier days was employed in some of the best binderies of Europe. He has retained all the wrinkles and recipes, the treasured secrets of cosmopolitan book binding, and out of the multiplicity of methods he has variously encountered, he has evolved a style of his own that characterizes all the bindings bearing the imprint of "Toof and Co," and makes the imprint as much a badge of merit as the English hall mark is the guaranty of fine silver. The mirror polish introduced occasionally upon the Toof bindings is at once the envy and the despair of other binders.