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Title: Bookbinding, and the Care of Books
A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians

Author: Douglas Cockerell

Editor: W. R. Lethaby

Illustrator: Noel Rooke

Release Date: September 19, 2008 [EBook #26672]

Language: English

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THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES
OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS
EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY

BOOKBINDING

[Illustration: WHITE PIGSKIN.--_Basle_, 1512.]

BOOKBINDING, AND
THE CARE OF BOOKS

A HANDBOOK FOR AMATEURS
BOOKBINDERS & LIBRARIANS
BY DOUGLAS COCKERELL

WITH

DRAWINGS BY NOEL ROOKE
AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1910

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

EDITOR'S PREFACE

In issuing this volume of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic
Crafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims.

In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of
workshop practice, from the points of view of experts who have
critically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting
aside vain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship,
and to set up a standard of quality in the crafts which are more
especially associated with design. Secondly, in doing this, we hope to
treat design itself as an essential part of good workmanship. During
the last century most of the art