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
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