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Excerpt from Preprints: Icom Committee for Conservation, 6th Triennial Meeting, Ottawa, 21-25 September 1981 Practically every large library has a department of rare collections. The uniqueness of the binding of a book is one of the many attributes that contribute to its rarity. In the process of its restoration it is imperative that all the details of a binding's construction as well as all its parts be preserved to the maximum. In order that these bindings, when to be restored, be handled by restorers with correspondingly sufficient skill and qualifications, the author preposes here a method of evaluating the uniqueness of such bindings as well as their state of preservation, and to group them accordingly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.