Description75 p. : color illus. CONTENTS: Collecting modern bindings: Public/private initiative at the John Rylands Library / Anthony Dowd. Recent bindings: Poems of Place, bound by Midori Kunikata-Cockram Recent bindings: Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia, bound by Mark Cockram Binders and keepers: thoughts on bookbinding & The British Museum Library Bindery / Philippa Marks. Cast in brass: finishing tools made by ABS / Trevor Lloyd. Education & training / James Brockman & Gordon Cummings. Good Book binders: binding of Bibles in the 19th century / Esther Potter. 'Wonderful things': The Bodelian Library 1602-2002 / Clive Hurst. Making good: an interview with Trevor Lloyd / Alan Isaac. Aya Nishio: an appreciation / Ann Websper. The archaeology of medieval bookbinding, by J.A. Szirmai [review] / Alan Isaac. Science now: alcohols / George D. Davidson.