This process is known as trade binding or perfect binding. In library binding, however, books are sewn together, which creates a more durable bond than adhesive.

Whether you’re binding a book yourself, or just covering one, it’s always wonderful to have something beautiful to write in. This little book has envelopes and inserts with little pockets between the ...

Harvard removed the human skin binding from a book held in Houghton Library and apologized for “past failures in its stewardship of the book” in a statement Wednesday.

The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted ...