item: #1 of 11
          id: 17585
      author: Davenport, Cyril
       title: English Embroidered Bookbindings
        date: None
       words: 31923
      flesch: 73
     summary: Small books, mostly religious works, were bound in satin from the beginning of the century until the time of the Commonwealth in considerable numbers; so much so, in fact, that their value depends not so much upon their designs or workmanship as upon their condition. Thus in both Mr. H. B. Wheatley's and Mr. W. Y. Fletcher's works on the bindings in the British Museum, in Mr. Salt Brassington's _Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library_ and _History of the Art of Bookbinding_, and in my own _Portfolio_ monograph on 'Royal English Bookbindings,' some of the finer specimens of embroidered books still existing are illustrated and described.
    keywords: bindings; blue; books; century; cord; design; edges; english; fine; flower; gold; guimp; illustration; inches; leaves; london; psalms; red; rose; satin; silk; silver; small; stitch; thread; upper; velvet; white; work
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 26672
      author: Cockerell, Douglas
       title: Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
        date: None
       words: 53682
      flesch: 77
     summary: | PRESSING.| | BACK.
    keywords: binding; boards; book; cut; edge; end; fig; glue; gold; hand; head; illustration; joint; knife; leather; leaves; left; lines; paper; paste; piece; plates; press; sections; sewing; sheets; time; tools; use; vellum; water; way; | |
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 38387
      author: Bailey, Arthur Low
       title: Library Bookbinding
        date: None
       words: 58880
      flesch: 76
     summary: Skins of animals which have not reached full growth should not be used for binding library books. Because leather bound books have always been considered stronger than others, and because they have always been laced-in to the boards (see page 42) before the leather has been put on, a prejudice against cased books has arisen.
    keywords: ------------+; = =; bands; binder; binding; boards; book; case; cloth; cost; cover; cut; end; good; leather; leaves; lettering; librarian; libraries; library; library binding; library books; number; page; paper; paste; periodicals; sewing; specifications; time; title; use; volume; way; work; | |; | |------------|; |------------| |
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 38946
      author: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Company
       title: Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (Pertaining to the art of binding books.—Dibdin) to which is appended a glossary of some terms used in the craft
        date: None
       words: 2325
      flesch: 72
     summary: The art of bookbinding is now so widely known and the taste and judgment of the public so thoroughly educated by the efforts of the Grolier Club and similar associations that good work and good material are appreciated, genuine and suitable decoration recognized and the best results obtained in the combination of an intelligent customer and a skilled and artistic workman. The Trow Bindery The production of fine bindings is not a new departure with us, but has been carried on for many years in what has been aptly described as, a quality department of a quantity business, where fine work can be executed at prices that are not prohibitive.
    keywords: book; gold; illustration; leather; work
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 39075
      author: Brown, Margaret Wright
       title: Mending and Repair of Books
        date: None
       words: 5376
      flesch: 76
     summary: (This gives data for yearly total and obviates the necessity of keeping binding book.) Wash for pages; wash for book covers; powdered pumice stone; art gum, sponge rubber.
    keywords: binding; book; cloth; cover; library; mending; paper; paste; use
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 39318
      author: Adam, Paul
       title: Practical Bookbinding
        date: None
       words: 50987
      flesch: 79
     summary: Account books take a stronger headband than other books; it must reach on to the board, which it binds to the book. Metal corners on account books are clumsy, damage the writing desks and other books coming into contact with them, and even when using the best mill-boards it is impossible to fix them so firmly that they will not work loose in the course of time.
    keywords: boards; book; cloth; colour; cover; cut; edge; end; fig; glue; gold; hand; leaf; leather; left; little; machine; paper; paste; piece; press; right; sewing; sheets; time; way; work; | |; | ||; || |
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 40028
      author: Davenport, Cyril
       title: Royal English Bookbindings
        date: None
       words: 25366
      flesch: 72
     summary: George Vertue, in his notes on the Fine Arts, says that small gold books were given to Queen Anne Boleyn's maids of honour; and he describes one of these little bindings which is, unfortunately, lost. It will be noticed that generally the ornamentation of English royal books is heraldic, and that crowned initials are constantly used from the time of Henry VIII.
    keywords: arms; bindings; book; border; british; centre; coat; copy; corners; design; elizabeth; england; english; fig; gold; henry; james; king; library; london; museum; prince; queen; red; royal; silver; stamps; velvet; viii; work
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 44890
      author: Bouchot, Henri
       title: The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time
        date: None
       words: 64881
      flesch: 63
     summary: El Monte Santo di Dio_, first book with engraved plates, 52. Loslein, Peter, printer at Venice, 35. Louis XII., ordinance on printing, 108; bindings for, 256, 264; royal library, 291. Louis XIV., bindings for, 281; regulations for bookbinders, Monteregio, _Calendario_, first book with title-page, 50. Montmorency, Anne de, bindings for, 272. Moreau the younger, engraver, 200. Moretus, printer of Antwerp, 141.
    keywords: art; artists; beginning; bible; bindings; book; booksellers; century; characters; collection; day; death; designs; edition; eighteenth; end; england; english; engraver; engraving; fifteenth; fig; figures; folio; france; francis; french; fust; german; grolier; gutenberg; henri; house; illustration; italian; italy; john; king; letters; library; louis; lyons; manner; mayence; means; men; new; number; paper; paris; place; plates; press; printer; printing; publishers; relief; royal; schoeffer; school; seventeenth; style; taste; text; time; title; tory; type; typography; venice; vignettes; volumes; wood; work; years
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 47456
      author: Dana, John Cotton
       title: Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries
        date: None
       words: 37884
      flesch: 77
     summary: =Paper.= Different kinds of book paper, to be obtained from any printer, will be needed for replacing end sheets, also thin bond paper for guarding leaves. Make two sets of four-page end-sheets by folding once with the grain pieces of lithographed lining paper; and two sets of waste papers by folding once pieces of good book paper, about 60 lb.
    keywords: binder; binding; boards; book; bookbinding; cents; cloth; cover; cut; edges; end; glue; good; half; leather; leaves; library; loose; machine; morocco; new; paper; paste; press; sewing; sheets; sides; style; thread; time; use; water; work; | |
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 51522
      author: Seymour-Jones, A. (Alfred)
       title: Leather for Libraries
        date: None
       words: 14783
      flesch: 67
     summary: In the Charter of the Leathersellers' Company, dated 1604, Spanish leather and other leathers dressed or wrought in sumach or bark are mentioned. It is not a fibrous substance as other leather is, but naturally of a compact, gristly character.
    keywords: acid; arts; binding; bookbinding; books; calf; colour; committee; goat; grain; leather; library; london; new; paper; sheep; skins; society; sulphuric; sumach; tanning; use; work
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 55056
      author: Nicholson, James B. (James Bartram)
       title: A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper.
        date: None
       words: 71800
      flesch: 71
     summary: Now used to denote the first and last word in an encyclopædia or other book of reference. This pattern may be much varied by using two or three colours or sprinkling the edge before the wax is thrown on, and, after it is, again with other colours.
    keywords: 12mo; 8vo; appearance; art; bands; binding; black; blue; boards; book; brown; calf; care; cloth; colour; cover; cut; cutting; design; edge; end; form; french; gilding; gold; good; green; half; hand; head; illustrated; iron; leather; left; manner; marble; marbling; morocco; paper; pattern; piece; place; plates; press; red; sheet; sides; size; style; time; tools; use; volume; water; white; work; workman
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