little paste, or you can make it by boiling flour and water and
sprinkling in a little salt. If you wish to keep it for a long time,
mix a few drops of oil of cloves with it and seal up.

Of course there are cases where some of these rules don't apply, such
as volumes made up from leaves taken from several other volumes or
pamphlets.

In case of a book of this kind place every leaf in correct order, and
write directions very carefully."

Many books will need repair. A few hours spent in the bindery,
studying the methods of putting a book together, will be helpful, not
only in the matter of securing good binding, but in the repairing of
books that have gone to pieces. Mend and rebind your books the minute
they seem to need it. Delay is the extravagant thing in this case. If
you are slow in this matter, leaves and sections will be lost, and the
wear the broken-backed volume is getting will soon remove a part of
the fold at the back of the several sections, and make the whole book
a hopeless wreck forever.




CHAPTER XXVIII

Pamphlets


Save all pamphlets having to do with local history, and save also