Book Repair. (Professional Materials).(Review)

Book Repair. 2d ed. By Kenneth Lavender. How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, #107. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001. 269p. $45 (ISBN 1-5570-408-5). www.nealschuman.com

In the first edition of Book Repair (Neal-Schuman, 1992), Lavender presented basic repair techniques to an audience of libraries with limited budgets, noting that some techniques were more expedient than they were conservationally sound. This second edition, more than twice the size of the first, addresses an audience of librarians, archivists, and collectors with a basic premise that archival-quality repair can be accomplished with "just a little practice and forethought." To this end, the author has …