• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• It is hoped that this book will help bookbinders and librarians to select sound methods of binding books.It is intended to supplement and not to supplant workshop training for bookbinders. No one can become a skilled workman by reading text-books, but to a man who has acquired skill and practical experience, a text-book, giving perhaps different methods from those to which he has been accustomed, may be helpful.
• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• It is hoped that this book will help bookbinders and librarians to select sound methods of binding books.It is intended to supplement and not to supplant workshop training for bookbinders. No one can become a skilled workman by reading text-books, but to a man who has acquired skill and practical experience, a text-book, giving perhaps different methods from those to which he has been accustomed, may be helpful.
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