Bookbinding and the Care of Books
A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders & Librarians
Douglas Cockerell
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
To Preserve Old Bindings -- Re-Backing
Specifications for Bookbinding
Reproductions of Bindings
Glossary