A couple of weeks ago I took apart a mid-nineteenth century book to rebind. The spine lining was some printer’s waste. It looked like a Law Report and the interesting thing for me was the reference to Admiralty, salvage and collisions which many of you will know was John’s law speciality. The photograph shows the spine lining of the book I took apart yesterday, also mid-nineteenth century. There isn’t any sense to it but some of the words stand out!