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“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.”
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Douglas Cockerell
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books (London: John Hogg, 1901), 306.view on Google Books
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