Hot-melt or cold glue: Binding techniques

Cold glue and perfect-bound in the 1960s

a hot-melt disaster

Did you ever buy a book because of the beautiful binding, too? Then you have to read the introduction to binding techniques by Robin Kinross on the Hyphen Press webpage.

A helpful brief summary of present methods of binding, from a North American perspective, can be found in this article by Brandon Rasch.