Finally, the endpapers were pasted down to the insides of the boards and the book was complete. It took perhaps eight to ten hours of actual working time for a single volume, but spaced over as much as two weeks to allow drying time between processes. _THE WILLIAMSBURG BINDERY TODAY_ Just as the printing office of William Parks and his successors stood on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg two centuries ago, so it stands again today on its original site. Again today it includes a bindery where gentlemen and ladies may bespeak books to be bound or rebound in the most exact manner and the most elegant taste. The master binder assures his patrons that he uses only the best materials and can, if they so wish, decorate a volume with the egg, the Mousetrap, or any other roll or ornament in his stock that pleases their fancy. For he not only uses the same kinds of tools used in the eighteenth century; some of them are actually recut to produce replicas of the old patterns. And his methods of work, too, are the same that were employed in this shop by men who put sturdy covers on the volumes of William Byrd II, Thomas Jefferson, and Norborne Berkeley—otherwise titled Lord Botetourt. _SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING_ Those who may be interested in pursuing further either the historical or the handicraft aspects of bookbinding will find the following list useful. Most of these books also include bibliographies or reading lists. Susan Stromei Berg, comp., _Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Imprints._ New York: Clearwater Publishing Co., 1986. Vito J. Brenni, _Bookbinding: A Guide to the Literature._ Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Edith Diehl, _Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique._ 5th ed. rev. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1965. Hannah D. French, _Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods._ Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. David Muir, _Binding and Repairing Books by Hand._ New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1977. Howard M. Nixon, _Five Centuries of English Bookbinding._ London: Scholar Press, 1978. Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, _Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology._ Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1982. C. Clement Samford and John M. Hemphill II, _Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia._ Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1966. Walters Art Gallery, _The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D._ Baltimore: The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957. Lawrence C. Wroth, _The Colonial Printer._ Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938. Laura S. Young, _Bookbinding and Conservation by Hand: A Working Guide._ New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1981.