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

Chapter 31: Transcriber's Note
By Douglas Cockerell
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The handbook presents practical, hand-work bookbinding techniques and methods for preserving and repairing books, aimed at amateurs, workshop students, and librarians. It explains preparing and folding sheets, sewing structures, endpapers, rounding and backing, attaching boards, covering with leather, tooling, edge gilding, headbanding, and clasps, plus materials—leather, paper, adhesives—and specialised treatments such as vellum, thin books, and library rebinding. It stresses integration of design with workmanship, material selection, and storage conditions, and offers guidance on rebinding, common causes of deterioration, specifications, and a glossary to support sound, durable bindings and long-term care.

THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS.

Edited by W. R. Lethaby.

The series will appeal to handicraftsmen in the industrial and mechanic arts. It consists of authoritative statements by experts in every field for the exercise of ingenuity, taste, imagination—the whole sphere of the so-called “dependent arts.”

BOOKBINDING AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders, and Librarians. By Douglas Cockerell. With 120 Illustrations and Diagrams by Noel Rooke, and 8 collotype reproductions of binding. 12mo. $1.25 net.

SILVERWORK AND JEWELRY. A Text-Book for Students and Workers in Metal. By H. Wilson. With 160 Diagrams and 16 full-page Illustrations, 12mo. $1.40 net.

WOOD CARVING: DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP. By George Jack. With Drawings by the Author and other Illustrations. $1.40 net.

STAINED-GLASS WORK. A Text-Book for Students and Workers in Glass. By C. W. Whall. With Diagrams by two of his Apprentices, and other Illustrations. $1.50 net; postage, 14 cents additional.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

Transcriber's Note

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Spelling has been normalized. For the detailed list please see the list below. If your cursor turns into a hand while you hover it over an illustration, the click on that illustration will open its larger version.

  • page 014—typo fixed: changed 'Making' to 'Marking'
  • page 138—spelling normalized: changed 'head-banding' to 'headbanding'
  • page 159—typo fixed: changed 'wook' to 'wood'
  • page 173—typo fixed: changed 'CHAPTER VIII' to 'CHAPTER XIII'
  • page 198—typo fixed: changed 'isinglas' to 'isinglass'
  • page 249—spelling normalized: changed 'tie downs' to 'tie-downs'
  • page 253—spelling normalized: changed 'headcap' to 'head-cap'
  • page 298—spelling normalized: changed 'millboard' to 'mill-board'
  • page 303—spelling normalized: changed 're-binding' to 'rebinding'
  • page 304—spelling normalized: changed 'millboard' to 'mill-board'
  • page 310—spelling normalized: changed 'Goat-skin' to 'Goatskin'
  • page 314—spelling normalized: changed 'head-banding' to 'headbanding'
  • page 315—spelling normalized: changed 'millboards' to 'mill-boards'
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  • page 341—spelling normalized: changed 'Re-folding' to 'Refolding'