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An interesting example of Wise's fondness for rebinding: Collins cites an example of him replacing Southey's homemade 'Cottonian' binding on his copy of Wordsworth's Poems (1807) with apple green levant morocco by Riviere – ' Sometimes it is a mistake for book collectors to have too much money – or too little taste come to that' (p. 214). In the present case, the niggling suspicion remains that the discarded binding was not exactly as Wise describes.