Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools and Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for Their Effective Use / W.J.E. Crane

Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools and Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for Their Effective Use / W.J.E. Crane

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REF.BB.1093
Reference Collection
vi p., 184 p.: illus.;19 cm.
1903
Charles Scribner's Sons
W.J.E. Crane
New York City
Bookbinding
Originally published in 1903, this classic work on bookbinding covers topics such as tools and appliances, materials, folding, placing plates, beating and pressing books, sawing and sewing, affixing end-papers, rounding and backing, getting into boards, cutting and beveling in boards, coloring edges, gilding edges, materials for marbling edges, headbands and registers, lining the back, covering, marbling and coloring leather, plain finishing, half and full gilt finishing, antique or monastic finishing, whole-bound finishing, conclusion and index. The title is illustrated with 156 engravings. Also included is an index and a list of handbooks published by L. Upscott Gill and Chas. Scribner's Sons.