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In this paper we consider a much-quoted phrase published by the essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) in the  London Magazine  in 1822 about a desirable quality in books: that they should be ‘strong-backed and neat-bound’. We identify meanings of modifier  neat  as evidenced by different communities of practice in early nineteenth-century newspapers, and in particular we present meanings of  neat  as used in certain Quaker writings known to have been read with approval by Lamb. By this method we assemble a series of nuanced meanings that the phrase  neat-bound  would have conveyed to contemporary readers – specifically, the readership of the  London Magazine .

Interpreting Charles Lamb’s ‘Neat-Bound Books’