Bookbinding

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As a child in the 1950s, we had an old book dated 1895 that we used to play with. Because we were quite rough with it, from time to time it would fall apart and have to be mended with sellotape. I remember noticing that the hardback binding was made up with what would have been scrap paper, including part of a map. In the 1970s I married and moved away. My husband came from a completely different area to me. In the 1980s I was given the book by my mother who was fed up with it falling apart. I looked again at the map in the book's spine and recognised it as the 1848 Ordnance Survey map of my husband's home area, Matthews Lane in Longsight, Manchester.
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