This is a softcover reprint of the hardcover edition that was originally published in 2023 and which recently went out-of-print.

The term endbands designates the two bands worked with thread(s) at the head and tail edges of the spine of a book. The techniques with which they are worked and the ways in which they are connected to a bound codex vary greatly over time and geography. The purpose of this book is to identify, classify and describe several of these different techniques used in manuscript books bound within different cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity until the 20th century. The book is richly illustrated with full-colour photographs and technical drawings explaining how these endbands were made and how they can be replicated.

Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; General Information; Definitions, Materials, and Endbanding Processes; Endbanding Families (Loop-Stitch and Blanket-Stitch, Wound, Bead, Chevron, Warps and Wefts, Stitched and Stuck On, and Braided and Interlaced); Appendix A. Codices Cited in This Book; Appendix B. Recording Endbands; Appendix C. Use of Endband Typology in Databases (by Athanasios Velios); bibliography and index.