Table of Contents:
Part I Binding
Editor's Preface
Author's Note
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Entering; Books in Sheets; Folding; Collating; Pulling to Pieces; Refolding; Knocking out Joints
Chapter III Guarding; Throwing Out; Paring Paper; Soaking off India Proofs; Mounting very Thin Paper; Splitting Paper; Inlaying; Flattening Vellum
Chapter IV Sizing; Washing; Mending
Chapter V End Papers; Leather Joints; Pressing
Chapter VI Trimming Edges before Sewing; Edge Gilding
Chapter VII Making up; Sewing; materials for Sewing
Chapter VIII Fraying out Slips; Glueing up; Rounding and Backing
Chapter IX Cutting and Attaching Boards; Cleaning off Back; Pressing
Chapter X Cutting in Boards; Gilding and Colouring Edges
Chapter XI Headbanding
Chapter XII Preparing for Covering; Paring Leather; Covering; Mitring Corners; Filling-in Boards
Chapter XIII Library Binding; Binding very Thin Books; Scrap-Books; Binding in Vellum; Books covered with Embroidery
Chapter XIV Decoration; Tools; Finishing; Tooling on Vellum; Inlaying on Leather
Chapter XV Lettering; Blind Tooling; Heraldic Ornament
Chapter XVI Designing for Gold-Tooled Decoration
Chapter XVII Pasting down End Papers; Opening Books
Chapter XVIII Clasps and Ties; Metal on Bindings
Chapter XIX Leather
Chapter XX Paper; Pastes; Glue
Part II Care of Books When Bound
Chapter XXI Injurious Influences to which Books are Subjected
Chapter XXII To Preserve Old Bindings; Re-backing
Specifications
Glossary
Reproductions of Bindings (Eight Collotypes)
Index

Marc Notes:
Originally published: Bookbinding, and the care of books. New York: D. Appleton, 1901.;Includes index.