1 Introduction, Abigail Bainbridge; Section 1: Book Structure and History; 2 The Birth of the Codex, Georgios Boudalis, Julia Miller, and Minah Song; 3 Eastern Mediterranean Bindings; 3.1 Coptic Bindings, Georgios Boudalis and Francisco H. Trujillo; 3.2 Ethiopic Bindings, Nikolas Sarris and Marco di Bella; 3.3 Islamic Bindings, Kristine Rose-Beers, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes, Karin Scheper, and Nil Baydar; 3.4 Armenian Bindings, Yasmeen Khan and Tamara Ohanyan; 3.5 Byzantine Bindings, Georgios Boudalis and Nikolas Sarris; 3.6 Syriac Bindings, Karin Scheper and François Vinourd; 3.7 Georgian Bindings, Maria Kalligerou; 3.8 Samaritan Bindings, Julia Poirier; 3.9 Jewish Bindings, Julia Poirier; 4 South-Asian Bindings; 4.1 Indic Bindings, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes; 4.2 Tibetan Bindings, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny; 4.3 Kashmiri Bindings, Jasdip Singh Dhillon; 4.4 Sikh Bindings, Jasdip Singh Dhillon; 5 East-Asian Bindings; 5.1 Chinese Bindings, Robert Minte and Emma Lau; 5.2 Korean Bindings, Minah Song; 5.3 Japanese Bindings, Kyoko Kusunoki and Mito Matsumaru; 6 Southeast Asian Bindings; 6.1 Upper Mainland Southeast Asian Bindings, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny; 6.2 Indonesian Bindings, Karin Scheper; 7 European Bindings; 7.1 Manuscripts in the Pre-Printing Era, Élodie Lévêque; 7.2 Printed Books, Melissa Tedone and Roger S. Williams; 7.3 Stationery Bindings, Holly Smith, Katerina Williams, and Sonja Schwoll; 7.4 Albums and Scrapbooks, Jane Rutherston and Olivia Primanis; 8 North American Bindings (Present-day Canada and United States), Julia Miller and Consuela (Chela) Metzger; 9 Latin American Bindings, Martha Elena Romero Ramírez and María Ángela Silvetti; Section 2: Bookbinding Materials and Their Degradation; 10 Introduction to Bookbinding Materials and Their Degradation, Abigail Bainbridge; 11 Materials and Identification; 11.1 Papyrus, Marieka Kaye; 11.2 Skin, Tuuli Kasso and Samuel Johns; 11.3 Textiles, Joanne Hackett; 11.4 Paper; 11.4.1 Introduction, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny and Abigail Bainbridge; 11.4.2 East Asian Handmade Paper, Minah Song; 11.4.3 Tibetan, Nepalese, and South Asian Handmade Paper, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny and Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes; 11.4.4 Handmade Papers of Central Asia, Western Asia (Middle East), and North Africa, Fiona McLees; [...]opean Handmade Paper, Abigail Bainbridge; 11.4.6 Machine-made Paper, Kimberly Kwan and Abigail Bainbridge; 11.5 Paper-based boards, Anne Hillam; 11.6 Wood, Roger S. Williams and Tristram Bainbridge; 11.7 Birch Bark, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny; 11.8 Palm Leaves, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny; 11.9 Metals, Erin Hammeke, Zora Sanders, and Camila Zanon Paglione; 11.10 Adhesives, Bronwen Glover and Mito Matsumaru; 11.11 Manuscript Media, Cheryl Porter; 11.12 East Asian Manuscript and Printing Inks, Minah Song; 11.13 Pre-industrial Western Printing Inks, c.1450–1850, Elizabeth Savage and Linda Stiber Morenus; 12 The Ten Agents of Deterioration, Caroline Bendix and Tiffany Eng Moore; 13 Polymers and Their Degradation, Norman Billingham, Barry Knight, Paul Garside, and David Mills; Section 3: Approaches to Conservation; 14 Introduction to Approaches to Conservation, Melissa Tedone; 15 Decision-making, William Bennett and Lauren Moon-Schott; 16 Conservation in Context, Lauren Moon-Schott and Fiona McLees; 17 Previous Treatments, Lauren Moon-Schott; 18 Social, Cultural, and Religious Considerations in Conservation Decision-making, Fletcher Durant and Bethany Goodman; Section 4: Preventive Conservation; 19 Introduction to Preventive Conservation, Fletcher Durant; 20 Boxing, Storage, and Transportation; 20.1 Preservation Enclosures for Books and Manuscrips, Bridget Mitchell and Abigail Bainbridge; 20.2 Storage of Books, Bridget Mitchell and Abigail Bainbridge; 20.3 Transportation of Books, Lang Ngo; 21 Exhibition of Books, Alexa McNaught-Reynolds; 22 Digitisation, Samantha Cawson and Jessica Pollard; Section 5: Techniques of Conservation; 23 Introduction to Techniques of Conservation, Melissa Tedone; 24 Conservation Documentation, Alberto Campagnolo; 25 Material-based Treatments; 25.1 Papyrus Treatment, Marieka Kaye; 25.2 Parchment Treatment, Élodie Lévêque and Cédric Levière; 25.3 Leather Treatment, Jen Anderson; 25.4 Paper Treatment, Abigail Bainbridge, Kimberly Kwan, Tiffany Eng Moore, and Kristine Rose-Beers; 25.5 Media Treatment, Kristine Rose-Beers; 25.6 Conservation Treatment Concerns for Printing Inks on Paper, Linda Stiber Morenus; 25.7 Board Treatment, Roger S. Williams and Tristram Bainbridge; 25.8 Metal Treatment, Zora Sanders and Camilla Zanon Paglione; 26 Structural Repairs; 26.1 Internal Features and Components; Liz Ralph and Holly Smith; 26.2 Board Reattachment and Spine Repair, Karen Vidler, Abigail Bainbridge, and Arthur Green; 26.3 Binding: Structure, Functionality, and Integrity, Sonja Schwoll and Andrea Pataki-Hundt.