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What Is This Thing Called Book? A BARC Workshop on the Topic of the Book--Its Materials, Its Manufacture, Its Care and Treatment in Libraries, Its Repair, and a Word About Fine Printing and Fine Binding. Proceedings.
Fowler, Thomas S., Ed. – 1978
Five speeches from a one-day workshop are concerned with book manufacture, marketing decisions, preservation of books, and binding techniques. Librarian Bonnie Jo Dopp defined terminology used in describing books and book manufacture, and mentioned the destructive action of acid in paper and the increasing use by book publishers of perfect binding…
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