Publisher's Synopsis
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
