Bookbinding and the Care of Books : A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & Librarians, Paperback by Cockerell, Douglas; Rooke, Noel, ISBN 1537463756, ISBN-13 9781537463759, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 ths in the Shelves
- To Preserve Old Bindings — Re-Backing
- Specifications for Bookbinding
Reproductions of Bindings
Glossary