id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15730 Ryan, Michael Stuart Bennett. Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660–1800. London; New Castle, Del.: The British Library; Oak Knoll, 2004. 176p. $85 (ISBN 0712348484;1584561300). 2005-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1284 58 62 In Bennett’s case, a lifetime of handling British books has led him to some major revisions in the received wisdom that many of us (myself included) have duly absorbed and erroneously passed along to others. British book buyers may well have customized their bindings, but they did so like Samuel Pepys: after they had bought the volume bound from their local merchant. cache/crl-15730.pdf txt/crl-15730.txt