Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books : A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & Librarians / Douglas Cockerell ; with drawings by Noel Rooke, and other illustrations.

There’s a certain delicious irony about releasing an ebook about the care and binding of print books.

Though still a valuable work, some things have changed somewhat since this was first published [1901]:

Smoking was found to be injurious, and it is certainly a mistake to allow it in libraries.

… touch both sides of the sheets where they have been stained with a brush dipped in essence of turpentine heated to boiling-point.

I’d like to see that get past the Health & Safety Committee!