#bookbinding

#bookbinding

Tom was a working historian or, perhaps, an experimental archeologist of the book, said Nicholas Yeager, who for many years taught bookbinding at San Francisco's Center for the Book. Not only did he train as a librarian, he studied bookbinding and conservation as well as practiced those skills. He also wrote about 19th century toolmaking for bookbinding and woodworking. There will be a huge gap in original research and synthesis of practical experience without his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the book.