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Title: Book Repair and Restoration

Author: Mitchell Buck

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BOOK REPAIR AND RESTORATION

_Only a thousand copies
of this book are printed
and type distributed._

[Illustration: 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 the
experience of others and partly evolved for myself in caring for my own
books. Although many "books about books" have already been written, there
is still, I think, a place for this one. I have designed it especially for
the bibliophile who enjoys "fussing" over his books and who receives, in
seeing them in good condition and repair through his own efforts, an echo
of the pleasure he receives from reading them._

_In translating from Bonnardot, I have taken the liberty of abridging or
paraphrasing, at times, the chapters which I have included here, not only
to confine the subjects a little more closely but also to present his
essential suggestions as concisely as possible. His book, copies of which
are very scarce, was first issued in an edition of four hundred copies in
1846 and re-issued, with revisions, in 1858. It has not since been
reprinted nor, so far as I have been able to learn, has i