Bookbinding and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & Librarians

ISBN-13: 9781537463759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 132 str.

Douglas Cockerell; Noel Rooke

Opis

Bookbinding and the Care of BooksA Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & LibrariansDouglas CockerellWith Drawings by Noel Rooke, and other IllustrationsTable of ContentsEditor's PrefaceAuthor's NotePart I BindingIntroduction

• Entering -- Books in Sheets -- Folding -- Collating -- Pulling to Pieces -- Refolding -- Knocking Out Joints
• Guarding -- Throwing Out -- Paring Paper -- Soaking off India Proofs -- Mounting Very Thin Paper -- Splitting Paper -- Inlaying Leaves or Plates -- Flattening Vellum
• Sizing -- Washing -- Mending
• End Papers -- Leather Joints -- Pressing
• Trimming Before Sewing -- Edge Gilding
• Marking up -- Sewing -- Materials for Sewing
• Fraying Out Slips and Glueing up -- Rounding and Backing
• Cutting and Attaching Boards -- Cleaning off the Back and Pressing
• Cutting in Boards -- Gilding or Colouring the Edges of a Cut Book
• Headbands
• Preparing for Covering -- Paring Leather -- Covering -- Mitring Corners and Filling in
• Library Binding -- Binding Very Thin Books -- Scrap-Books -- Vellum Bindings -- Books Covered with Embroidery and Woven Material
• Decoration of Binding -- Tools -- Finishing -- Tooling on Vellum -- Inlaying on Leather
• Lettering on the Back -- Blind Tooling -- Heraldry on Book Covers
• Designing for Gold-Tooled Decoration -- Designing Tools -- Combining Tools to Form Patterns -- Designing for Backs -- Designing for Inside of Boards
• Pasting Down End Papers -- Opening Newly Bound Books
• Clasps and Ties -- Metal on Bindings
• Leather
• Paper -- Pastes -- White Paste for Mending -- Glue

Part II Care of Books when Bound

• Injurious Influences to which Books are Subjected -- Bookworms -- Rats and Mice -- Cockroaches -- Placing the Books in the Shelves
• To Preserve Old Bindings -- Re-Backing
• Specifications for Bookbinding

Reproductions of BindingsGlossary

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