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Every librarian or book collector should understand something of book-binding and its terms, so that he may be able to give clear directions as to every item involved in binding, repairing, or re-lettering, and to detect imperfect or slighted work. The qualities that we always expect to find in a well-bound book are solidity, flexibility, and elegance.
These lettering-pieces become loose in over-heated libraries, and tend continually to peel off, entailing the expense of repairing or re-lettering. Every morocco bound book can be lettered directly upon the leather. Bock is made of the skin of the Persian sheep, and is called Persian in London. A skin of Persian leather costs about one-third the price of genuine morocco, or goat.
Next, all the books thus catalogued, labelled, and supposed to be ready for the shelves, should be examined with reference to three points: 1st. Whether any of the volumes need re-lettering. 2nd. Whether any of them require re-binding. 3rd. If any of the bindings are in need of repair.
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