Book Repair and Restoration

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INLAID LEVANT BINDING

BOOK REPAIR
AND RESTORATION

A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
FOR BIBLIOPHILES

Including some Translated Selections
from
Essai sur l’art de Restaurer les Estampes et les Livres,
par A. Bonnardot, Paris 1858

By

MITCHELL S. BUCK

Author of “Syrinx,” “Ephemera,” “The Songs of Phryne,”
Translator of “Lucian’s Dialogues of the Hetaerai,” etc.

Philadelphia NICHOLAS L. BROWN MCMXVIII

Copyright, 1918
By Nicholas L. Brown

Printed July 1918

FOREWORD

The following chapters contain suggestions partly gathered from theexperience of others and partly evolved for myself in caring for my ownbooks. Although many “books about books” have already been written, thereis still, I think, a place for this one. I have designed it especially forthe bibliophile who enjoys “fussing” over his books and who receives, inseeing them in good condition and repair through his own efforts, an echoof the pleasure he receives from reading them.

In translating from Bonnardot, I have taken the liberty of abridging orparaphrasing, at times, the chapters which I have included here, not onlyto confine the subjects a little more closely but also to present hisessential suggestions as concisely as possible. His book, copies of whichare very scarce, was first issued in an edition of four hundred copies in1846 and re-issued, with revisions, in 1858. It has not since beenreprinted nor, so far as I have been able to learn, has it been translatedinto English, either wholly or in part.

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