Traces of the Original Binding
description: I chose this copy of The Fishing Tourist for rebinding as the text block was generally clean but the binding had suffered serious damage. When I received the rebound book from Debra Frances, I was delighted to find a portion of the original binding’s spine and endband pasted to new front free endpaper. Small details such as this that preserve the physical history of a specific copy of a book are one of the things I love about book collecting.
creator: Justin Hanisch (photographer)
source: The Fishing Tourist: Angler's Guide and Reference Book
publisher: Harper & Brothers
date: 1873
contributor: Debra Frances (binding in fish skin); Charles Hallock (author)
format: Small octavo
language: English
coverage: New York (published); bound in lake trout caught in northwestern Ontario