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ABC of Bookbinding -
A uniquely illustrated glossary covering terms related to bookbinding and the book. Examining the book's development through different times and in different places, this work includes names and drawings for almost every conceivable part of the book as well as multitude of styles, bindings and deco...
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ABC of Leather Bookbinding-Softcover -
An illustrated manual that shows step-by-step the art and science of fine leather bookbinding. Edward Lhotka learned the ancient craft from one of England's foremost binders, Alfred de Sauty. In this important work, he takes the reader through the intricacies of traditional leather binding with th...
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Albums -
This book examines basic historical album structures, and gives 8 new designs worked out with photo preservation in mind. It offers an immediate understanding of how most albums are, and have been, made. There's a glossary of technical terms, a list of supplies, and easy to follow techniques.
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An Introduction to Gold Finishing -
This book has been written and designed to enable both the beginner and experienced bookbinder to develop and enhance their skills in this most difficult area of the bookbinding trade. The methodical step by step approach to working in gold is based on the authors industrial and teaching experience...
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Basic Bookbinding -
Modern, easy, inexpensive techniques, using minimal equipment for binding new books, and rebinding old. Best elementary book. 261 illus.(144 pages 1955 Paperback)
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Book Sewings by Hand -
This book is an excellent source of 23 sewings executed for the Fundamentals of Conservation Treatment course taught by Guy Petherbridge at Columbia University, 1988-89. Written for the bookbinder or apprentice seeking a reliable guide to a small number of exemplary, practical and much used sewings...
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Bookbinding & Conservation- A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft -
Autobiography by renowned bookbinder Don Ethrington takes the reader through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation.
The author documents his experiences teaching and traveling through Europe and the U.S. as well as his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence foll...
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Bookbinding - Its Background and Technique -
A major reference that surveys the history from antiquity to the 19th century and provides instruction for all types of hand bookbinding. (700 pages Paperback)
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Bookbinding and Conservation by Hand -
By Laura Young. A practical manual for both experienced and beginning binders, book collectors, book dealers, and librarians. All instructions throughout this book have been tested at the bench for clarity and completeness. Where feasible, a list of materials precedes the step-by-step instruction...
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Bookbinding for Book Artists -
Bookbinding for Book Artists presents a simple approach to binding a book in cloth or leather. It eliminates the skill required to pare leather or to sew endbands.
Household tools are substituted for traditional binding equipment. Instructions for making a simple book press are included.
Three...
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Bookbinding: The Classic Arts and Crafts Manual -
One of the principal texts of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, this classic work brought a resurgence of life and vigor to the ancient craft of bookbinding books by hand. Its fame and usefulness has endured for more than a century, as evidenced by the many contemporary bookbinders and libra...
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Books, Boxes and Portfolios;
Binding, Construction and Design Step-by-step -
Translated from the Swiss text. Fully illustrated, step-by-step, through projects for making boxes, portfolios, book covers, albums, mats both sewn and adhesive bindings. Design principles and esthetics are stressed. Our most popular book on this subject. (304 pages, Hardcover 1983)
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Collage: A New Approach -
This book describes a new technique, developed by the author, which makes it possible to adhere collage elements without liquid adhesives. This technique eliminates wrinkling and drying time from collage-making, offering new opportunities for creative spontaneity. 55 pages, softcover.
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Constructing and Covering Boxes - A Beginner's Guide -
All the steps necessary to make a variety of colorful, decorative, useful boxes created from book board and covered with book cloth or paper. Over 230 wonderful color photos to illustrate the steps needed to make hinged lid and clamshell boxes. Tools and materials and essential formulas are covere...
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Cover to Cover -
This book gives instructions on many different styles of binding, including Japanese stab bindings, traditional codices, and complex fold books. Over 170 photographs and hundreds of illustrations. 144 pages, paperback.
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Creating Books & Boxes: Fun & Unique Approaches to Handmade Structures -
By Benjamin D. Rinehart
The author covers all the basics of book and box construction, including terms, tools, cutting, sewing, and adhesives with the addition of unique twists for making eleven projects. Includes a section on Surface Design Techniques and a Gallery of Artist's Books.
143 Pages...
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Creative Bookbinding -
Presents techniques for note pads, scrapbooks, portfolios, sewn books, cloth and leather bindings. Includes tooling, stamping, embossing, inlaying and dyeing leather, preservation, repair and history of the book. (275 pages, 302 photos, Paperback 1973)
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Edge Decoration for Bookbinding -
This excellent book has been designed and written as a practical guide to the various techniques of edge decoration of a text block. Sections of the book include equipment and techniques, sizes (adhesives), edge coloring, sprinkling, edge marbling, gilding, gilding in the flat, gilding in the round...
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Fine Bookbinding -
Guides the reader through the processes involved in creating a book bound in leather, or a “fine binding.” The author defines a fine binding as a book fully covered in leather, with leather-jointed endpapers, gilt edges, & leather doublures. Although a basic knowledge of bookbinding terms and techni...
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Flemish Bindery Poster -
This is truly a very special poster, published by Shepherds Bookbinders.
Unique in that the image portrays every step of the book from start to finish.
The image displays a few particularly noteworthy details. The first is how we can identify this as a Flemish bindery. Can you figure out ...
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Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction -
Expert guide to creating fine books by hand. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations, cover materials, tools and equipment, making a slipcase, rebinding an old book, more. Also, 8 specific projects: dust jacket; blank book, single signature; folio; manuscript binding; mu...
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Handmade Books & Albums -
If you write or take notes, draw, sketch, paint, collect material in albums or portfolios, and want to do so in one-of-a-kind bindings, or wish to create unique books for any purpose, this beautifully illustrated guide explains the main techniques of simple bookbinding and offers step-by-step instru...
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Handmade Books and Cards -
A short historical overview of bookmaking that leads into a detailed instruction to the creation of numerous current book art forms. (147 pages Hardcover)
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Handmade Books DVD -
Learn bookbinding from one of England's most prestigious bookbinders, Rob Shepherd.
Previously only available on VHS, this very popular video has been completely remade and updated. The DVD features nine easy to follow exercises include making single and multi section books, photograph albums ...
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Headbands, How to Work Them -
A comprehensive manual showing how to reproduce numerous historical endbands. Thoroughly diagrammed instructions to reproduce headbands with a bead on the edge, bead on the spine, French Double, Coptic, Ethiopian, German Braided, Greek, Armenian, Islamic, Italian Renaissance, Monastic, Chevron, and...
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