The accuracy of this story was attested by a respectable bookbinder, of great age but clear memory, named Cornelis who had been a fellow-servant with the culprit in the house of Coster, and indeed had occupied the same bed for several months, and who could never talk of such baseness without shedding tears and cursing the thief.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
It is thus that legends grow, and it is not difficult to imagine Haarlem bookmen picking up ideas out of colophons in old books and asking the "respectable bookbinder of great age" whether it was not thus and thus that things happened.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Besides these there was a bookbinder, also called John.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark