Book rebinding

Book rebinding is the renewal or replacement of the <a href="/facts/Book_cover/AFuKsYGl">cover of a book</a>. Typically, this requires restitching or renewal of the glue which holds the pages in place.
<a href="/facts/Library_binding/aWLInnzT">Libraries</a> may rebind books for durability or archival purposes, or for repair.
Collectors of <a href="/facts/Book_collecting/zPTxlzFg">antique books</a> such as <a href="/facts/Incunabula/kQGIqT7S">incunabula</a> have often had items rebound. This might be done to improve their appearance by rebinding in a more fashionable colour or to assert ownership by having the book rebound in uniform covers which were stamped with an insignia such as a coat of arms. One prominent collector who had this done was <a href="/facts/George_Spencer%2c_2nd_Earl_Spencer/HNXkxscQ">Earl Spencer</a>. For example, when he acquired a medieval <a href="/facts/Psalter/CL5LUQWy">psalter</a> of 1457, which was bound in pigskin on wooden boards, he had it rebound in mauve velvet over cardboard. The <a href="/facts/Bodelian_Library/wxknaMJk">Bodelian Library</a> rebound additions to its collection for functional reasons—to indicate value and importance. The <a href="/facts/Biblioth%25C3%25A8que_nationale_de_France/4TNyWsxG">Bibliothèque nationale de France</a> requested 6600 francs for bookbinding in the eighth year of the <a href="/facts/French_Republican_Calendar/orIoRTpp">revolutionary calendar</a>, "those which come from our conquests in Germany and Italy, and while infinitely precious, they have arrived to us in a deplorable state".

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Book rebinding