A report on the seminar The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century, held November 1979 at the Hunt Institute. There is an overview; an abstract of remarks -- by Peter Waters, Jane Greenfield, and Carolyn Horton, an audience -- on the ethics of binding and restoration; and the text of a talk by Jean Gunner, on binding in general and her involvement with it and the Hunt Institute. -- AATA