The Restoration of Leather Bindings, by Bernard C. Middleton. Drawings by Aldren A. Watson and Seymour Fleishman. Third edition, revised and expanded, 4to, pp.xv[1],304, 28cm, Oak Knoll Press [&] The British Library, 1998
Upwards of 120 illustrations within the text. Brown buckram, spine gilt, pictorial dust-jacket (for the fourth edition). A fine copy
Parts of a hand-bound book , 1. Introduction, 2. Definition of terms, 3. Workshop tools, equipment, and materials, 4. Cleaning the bindings, 5. Removing the original spine,6. Alternatives to resewing, 7. Resewing, 8. Gluing up, rounding, and backing, 9. Headbanding, 10. Back lining, 11. Preparation of boards for rebacking, 12. Rebacking, 13. Repairing inner joints, 14. Replacing the original spine, 15. Repairing caps and outer joints without rebacking, 16. Repairing caoutchouc bindings, 17. Repairing corners, 18. Blending in new endpapers,19. Straightening warped boards, 20. Rebonding old pasteboards, 21. Salvaging old sides,22. Staining, ageing, tooling, and furbishing, 23. Record of repairs,24. The rebinding of antiquarian books, 25. Supplement to the third edition
