IN recent years there has been considerable dissatisfaction with the quality of leather used for bookbinding; although many old books have their bindings still in good condition, others more recently ...

Preliminary work -- Making the leather-jointed endpapers -- Edge treatment -- Preparing for sewing and sewing the text-block -- Rounding and backing -- Preparing the book boards -- Lacing on the book ...

Yes, Kindles are wonderful, a computer full of PDFs are awesome, and [Tim Berners-Lee] will probably go down in history as more important than [Gutenberg]. That doesn’t mean there’s not something ...

Betty Mary Haines, research chemist and leather conserver: born London 2 February 1925; MBE 1983; President, Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists 1986-88; died Slough, Berkshire 24 November ...