(1870–1945)
English bookbinder and author
Douglas Cockerell
Part of the interest of any old book is its individual history, which can be gathered from the binding, book-plates, marginal notes, names of former owners, &c., and anything that tends to obliterate these signs is to be deplored.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books (London: John Hogg, 1901), 306.