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

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Bookbinding and the Care of Books

A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & Librarians

Douglas Cockerell

With Drawings by Noel Rooke, and other Illustrations

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface

Author's Note

Part I Binding

Introduction

  • 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 Bindings

Glossary

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