Notes on bookbinding for libraries by Dana John Cotton 1856-1929

Author:Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bookbinding
Publisher: Chicago : Library bureau
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

name, or looks, or feel; but only by trial. Dealers, even, cannot tell the good from the best.

The sum of all advice is, having found, by your own or others' tests, that a certain leather is good, use it as long as you can get it. The British museum sets a good example in this. It has in recent years bound many thousands of volumes in morocco made by Meredith-Jones & Sons, Wrexham, Wales, which experience thus far shows to be very good. We have tried it and in the brief trial we have given it, found it excellent.

Dr. J. Gordon Parker, Herold's Institute, Drum-mond Road, Bermondsey, England, has made an arrangement with the council of the Library Association of England by which he has become their official examiner of leather and he will test samples for acids, nature of tannage, etc., at reasonable rates.

John Muir & Son, tanners and curriers, Beith, Scotland, offices: 3 Arundel St., Strand, London, W. C., England, prepare pigskin for bookbinding; so do Edw. & Jas. Richardson, Elswick Leather Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.

J. Meredith-Jones & Sons, Ltd., Cambrian Leather Works, Wrexham, Wales, make bookbinders' leathers guaranteed to be dressed on the lines recommended by the Society of Arts Report, and free from mineral acids. Specialty: Welsh sheep.

Much has been written on the wearing and lasting qualities of leather. The best discussion of the subject is the Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding, made to the Society of Arts, Eng-

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