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The Art of Bookbinding - The Classic Victorian Handbook
By Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
Published by Dover Publications.
Hobbyists can learn the art of bookbinding from a renowned Victorian master on a classic that offers expert, easy-to-follow advice on every stage of the craft. The author, whose custom bookbinding has been revered since the nineteenth century, offers step-by-step instructions on every stage of the process: from folding the leaves and sewing them into signatures to gluing, gilding edges, covering, and finishing. Over 117 woodcuts and lithographs from the original edition illustrate tools and equipment, as well as examples of exquisite binding inlays.
A rare study of a centuries-old art form, 'The Art of Bookbinding' preserves a precious legacy for binders, book art enthusiasts, and collectors. Among the most respected references available on the technique of professional bookbinding, its contents capture the essence of superior book production and invoke a renewed appreciation for lasing, quality-made tomes.
Unabridged republication of the revised and enlarged second edition of the work originally published in 1980 by George Bell & Sons, Ltd. 224pp 5.5" x 8.5" - paperbound.
Price: £10.00
The Leatherworking Handbook
By Valerie Michael published by Cassell Illustrated. With over 60 colour and B&W illustrations.
At last! A leatherworking book for amateurs by a top professional. Valerie Michael, a founder member of the association of Design Leatherworkers, has been a full-time leatherworker for over twenty years, and this book contains the very best of her knowledge and experience. After a really thorough presentation of each of the key techniques - such as finishing edges, paring and hand stitching, making pockets, attaching studs and straps and decorating surfaces - there are ten projects, suitable for developing levels of skill, from belts and wallets to quilted work and three different types of leather bag. Not only is this book an ideal introduction to a centuries-old craft, but its comprehensive treatment of materials, tools and techniques makes it an invaluable work of reference.
Price: £15.20
Bookbinding - The Classic Arts & Crafts Manual
By Douglas Cockerell (with illustrations by Noel Rooke)
Published by Dover Publications.
One of the principal texts of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, this classic work brought a resurgence of life and vigour to the ancient craft of binding books by hand. Its fame and usefulness has endured for more than a century, as evidenced by the many contemporary bookbinders and libraries who consider it to be the clearest and most valuable exposition of the technique of hand bookbinding in English.
The text covers concisely virtually every aspect of the craft-from folding and collating pages, trimming and gilding edges, and culling and attaching boards, to preparing covers, mitring corners, designing and inlaying on leather, and pasting down end papers. More than twenty informative text diagrams and eight plates, as well as a glossary and an index complete this important manual.
A "must-have" for craftspeople, libraries, and book preservationists, the volume remains one of the most valuable manuals available on the technique of hand binding.
Unabridged Dover (2005) republication of Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians as originally published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1901. 120 figures.
8 halftones. 352pp. 5% x 8. Paperbound.
Price: £14.00
Hand Bookbinding - A Manual of Instruction
By Aldren A. Watson
Published by Dover - Paperback 160 pages, 273 black & white illustrations
Before the advent of modern mass-production methods, books were bound by hand to remarkably high standards of quality. Beautiful and durable, they appealed to book lovers who appreciated not only a book's content but also the quality and craftsmanship of its binding. Unfortunately, the introduction of machine-binding methods, while making books widely available at reasonable prices, also largely curtailed the art and craft of making fine books by hand.
This expert guide offers a solution. In its pages, craftspeople can learn the traditional methods of bookbinding and produce high-quality hand-bound books themselves. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations by the author, cover materials, tools and equipment (including making your own); fundamental procedures and technical methods; rebinding an old book; making a slipcase and other essentials. Also included are well illustrated, step-by-step directions for eight binding projects: dust jacket; blank book, single signature; folio; blank book, four signatures; manuscript binding; music binding and two more.
Clearly written and easy to follow, this manual will be indispensable to anyone wishing to create high-quality handcrafted bindings themselves; it will also serve as a valuable reference for students and professionals in publishing and its allied trades.
Price: £11.99
Basic Bookbinding
By A.W. Lewis
Re-published by Dover - Paperback from the 1952 Edition. 144 pages, 261 black & white illustrations. 13.5cm x 20.5cm
Starting from basic principles and assuming no previous experience, this modern exposition of the elements of bookbinding enables both the beginner and the expert to apply the latest and most simplified techniques to rebinding old favourites and binding many new paperback books.
A complete list of all necessary materials, including a guide to the proper selection of tools, paper, glue, boards, cloth and leather covering fabrics and lettering inks and pigments, introduces the subject. In surprisingly easy stages, you are shown how to collate a book, sew it, back it, trim it, make boards and attach them to the book. Step-by-step instructions and hundreds of photographs and diagrams of equipment and key operations reduce the process to essentials.
Individual chapters are devoted to single-sectioned, multi-sectioned and case-bound books, hollow-backed and library style binding, the use of end papers and the most practical methods of lettering the finished book. The author includes a valuable appendix which summaries the precise steps followed in each operation in convenient tabular form.
This elementary text is simple enough for the beginner yet contains new material of interest to the expert. Basic Bookbinding avoids intricate techniques and elaborate equipment. Mr. Lewis, twice first prize-winner in national competition, presents the Subject with the clarity born of many years of experience in teaching bookbinding.
Price: £7.99
Modern Bookbinding
By Alex J. Vaughan
Published by Hale - Paperback
Out of print and virtually unobtainable for many years, this facsimile of the 1950 edition with a new forward by Maureen Duke, is a welcome reissue of one of the standard books on the craft of bookbinding. It deals in great detail with what used to be called the 'letterpress and stationery' branches of the trade and includes sections on finishing and design.
Price: £15.99
A Craftsman's Guide - Edge Decoration
Published by The Standing Press - Paperback
This book has been designed and written as a practical guide to edge decoration. The text and illustrations have been compiled in a format that will enable the binder to use the book not only as an exhaustive source of information, but as a practical step-by-step working guide to the many and complex techniques of book edge decoration.
Price: £35.00
A Craftsman's Guide - An Introduction to Gold Finishing
By John Mitchell
Published by The Standing Press - Paperback
This book has been designed and written as a practical guide to gold finishing. The text and illustrations have been compiled in a format that will enable the binder to use the book not only as an exhaustive source of information, but as a practical step-by-step working guide to the many and complex techniques of finishing.
Price: £35.00
Bookbinder - Volume 4 - 1990
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Last few copies available!!
Price: £12.00
Bookbinder - Volume 9 - 1995
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Last few copies available!!
Price: £15.00
Bookbinder - Volume 10 - 1996
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £15.00
Bookbinder - Volume 11 - 1997
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £16.00
Bookbinder - Volume 12 - 1998
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £16.00
Bookbinder - Volume 14 - 2000
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 15 - 2001
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 16 - 2002
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 17 - 2003
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 18 - 2004
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 19 - 2005
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 20 - 2006
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 21 - 2007
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
Bookbinder - Volume 22 - 2008
The Annual Journal of The Society of Bookbinders
Price: £18.00
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