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Ref. | Title | Publisher | Date | Author | Synopsis | ||
A1 | Bookbinding as a Handcraft | Bell | 1975 | Bannister, Manly | A comprehensive account of case binding, sunk cords, single sheet, leather preparation. A very good selection on making your own tools and equipment. | ||
A1/a | Bookbinding as a Handcraft | Stirling | 1975 | Bannister, Manly | A comprehensive account of case binding, sunk cords, single sheet, leather preparation. A very good selection on making your own tools and equipment. | ||
A2 | Boxes for the Protection of Rare Book: their design & construction | Library of Congress | 1982 | Brown, Margaret | Patterns for: a phased box, a portfolio, a fore-edge grip box, standard rare book designs with and without portfolio. A very detailed step-by-step instruction and comprehensively illustrated. Good for beginners. | ||
A3 | The Craft of Bookbinding: a practical handbook | David & Charles | 1975 | Burdett, Eric | One of the standard texts on bookbinding. Very detailed text covering everything from tools to finishing. Also historical and modern binding, inlays & onlays, guard books etc. An excellent reference book for all stages. | ||
A5 | Bookbinding as a school subject, Stage 4 lettering and simple tooling | 1985 | Cockerell, Douglas | Pamphlet, Third Edition. How to make patterns with simple tools. Tooling is in gold leaf. | |||
A6 | Bookbinding and the care of books, with appendix by Sydney Cockerell | Pitman | 1953 | Cockerell, Douglas | The original in 1901 is the classic book on bookbinding, but is lacking in illustrations at critical points eg. Headbands. Appendix this edition covers more modern materials and methods. Very good for all binders. | ||
A7 | Introduction to Bookbinding | Faber & Faber | 1965 | Darley, Lionel S | A good introduction, basic case making, leather binding, machine bookbinding, glossary. | ||
A8 | Bookbinding | Cassell | 1902 | Hasluck, Paul | Numerous engravings and diagrams. More of historic, rather than practical use of commercial trade binding. Good section on colouring edges, through marbling colours would be unobtainable today. Interesting to those with previous experience. | ||
A9 | Japanese Bookbinding | 1986 | Ikegami, Kogiro | Step by step instructions for Japanese bindings. Very detailed with many illustrations and photographs. Glossary. Good for beginners. | |||
A10 | Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1984 | Johnson, Arthur | One of the best introductions to bookbinding. Covers case, library (cloth & leather) sunk cord, vellum, & limp bindings; guard books, single sheet, finishing, boxes and many others. Strongly recommended for beginners and others. | ||
A11 | The Practical Guide to Craft Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1985 | Johnson, Arthur | Covers basic tools, materials design and application to single and multi-section, library style and limp in cloth and leather. Excellent section on designing titles and spines. No index. | ||
A11/a | Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1978 | Johnson, Arthur | Earlier edition of A10. Strongly recommended for beginners and others. | ||
A11/b | Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1978 | Johnson, Arthur | Earlier edition of A10. Strongly recommended for beginners and others. | ||
A11/c | The Practical Guide to Craft Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1985 | Johnson, Arthur | |||
A12 | A Craftsman Guide to Gold Finishing, Ed. | Nolan Watts, Standing Press | 1995 | Mitchell, John | A painstaking detailed account of gold tooling using gold leaf and egg glaire. Excellent photographs and valuable chapters on the use of finishing tools and how to correct faults. | ||
A13 | Creative Bookbinding | University of Washington Press | 1963 | Johnson, Pauline | Working procedures for simple bindings on tapes or sunk cords, mostly square backs. Very creative ideas for decorated paper sides. Good for beginners. | ||
A14 | How to Cloth Bind a Paperback Book: A step-by-step guide for beginners | Dover | 1980 | Kafka, Francis J. | Side sewing, casing, slipcase and a few repairs. Good for beginners. | ||
A15 | Bookbinding for Beginners | Cassell & Co. | 1933 | Kay, J | More working with paper making, calendars etc than bookbinding. Covers luggage labels, comb case, etc. single section, four sections. Good ideas for teaching children or those interested in other crafts. | ||
A16 | Advanced Bookbinding | Cassell & Co. | 1933 | Kay, J | Follows on from Bookbinding for Beginnersand covers single section, case, library and flexible binding with some repairs and finishing. Intended as a school children’s book, so not enough information for a DIY. | ||
A17 | Handmade Cards & Books | Lothian | 1995 | Kropper, Jean | Step by step instructions on bookbinding techniques, pamphlet, Japanese & Coptic binding, decorating cards and books, how to pattern papers. Also covers concertina bindings and albums. Australian terminology. | ||
A18 | Craftsman’s Guide to Edge Decorating | Standing Press | 1995 | Mitchell, John | A painstaking detailed account of gold tooling using gold leaf and egg glaire. Excellent photographs and valuable chapters on use of finishing tools and correcting faults. | ||
A19 | Unsewn Binding | Dryad Press | 1964 | Percival, G.S. & Graham, R.A. | Detailed instructions and variations on lumbecking single sheets. Good for beginners. | ||
A20 | Bookbinding | Inland Printer Co. | 1924 | Pleger, John J | Commercial and trade binding but useful for understanding the made up of a commercial book. | ||
A21 | Bookbinding at Home | Riberholt & Drastrup, A | |||||
A22 | Introducing Bookbinding | 1984 | Robinson, Ivor | a manual on case binding (English joint), single sections, quarter leather, library & finishing by an outstanding British craftsman and teacher. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Good for beginners. | |||
A23 | Work in Progress | 1979 | Shannon, Faith | This pamphlet is a manual which accompanied one of a series of four touring exhibitions organised by the Crafts Council in 1979. Faith Shannon explains bookbinding and her workshop for which a plan is included. | |||
A24 | Hand Bookbinding: A manual of instruction | Bell | 1963 | Watson, Aldren A. | Good introduction, suitable for beginners with many illustrations. Useful section on making your own equipment. | ||
A25 | The Art of Bookbinding | George Bell & Sons | 1900 | Zaehndorf, Joseph W. | Technological Handbooks. Historically interesting text by one of the great trade bookbinders of the nineteenth century who was famous for his immaculate and intricate finishing. Many illustrations and colure plates of beautiful finishing. Beware of the section on ‘Washing and Cleaning’ as much of it is not acceptable today. Gives an excellent picture of fastidious binding 100 years ago. | ||
A26 | Bookbinding: A beginner’s manual | Black | 1981 | Ashman, John | A lot of very useful information, but could be difficult for a beginner. He has a weird work order; he treats gold lettering in Chapter 3 before case making! Some good tips for those who know what they are doing and a very unusual way of dealing with single sheets – always a problem. | ||
A27 | Binding and Repairing Books by Hand | Batsford | 1978 | Muir, David | Covers repairing heads & tails, corners, torn pages, repacking in cloth and leather, rebinding a cloth book, quarter, half and full leather, and gold finishing. He only deals with books sewn on cords – sunk and raised. Plenty of good line illustrations. | ||
A28 | Bookbinding and Conservation by hand: A working guide | Bowker Co. | 1981 | Young, Laura S. | More or less everything you ever wanted to know about bookbinding, following the German school – very slow and thorough. It covers Bradel as well as more familiar bindings, techniques for repairing, headbinding, finishing, Yapp binding, vellum and oriental. The only work which tells you how to correct mistakes and accidents. | ||
A29 | Non Adhesive Binding | 1991 | Smith, Keith A. | Sewn paperback. This covers a range of bindings from simple Japanese style in many variations to very complex multiple sections with exposed longstitch, Coptic sewing, concertina binding in an extraordinary variety of styles. Highly recommended if you want something different. | |||
A30 | Bookbinding for Beginners | Studio Vista | 1967 | Corderoy, John | A good basic text for a beginner with very clear diagrams. Includes an excellent section on paring leather and many good ideas on making decorative cases in paper and cloth. | ||
A31 | Bookbinding made Easy | Bruce | 1937 | Klinefelter, Lee M. | Another “How to make your own equipment book”. Recommends techniques no longer accepted, however, could gain some useful information. Useful glossary. | ||
A32 | Bookbinding: its background and technique. Two volumes bound as one | Dover | 1980 | Diehl, Edith | Vol. 1, A history of bookbinding, methods and decoration in most European countries, North America and Near East. Vol. 2, Very detailed account of traditional binding, mostly leather, repairing, finishing, lettering. As Diehl is American /Canadian, many of the names of materials are unfamiliar and some bleaching techniques are no longer acceptable. Useful as a bookbinding encyclopaedia, very useful glossary. 91 illustrations. |
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A33 | ABC of Bookbinding | Oak Knoll | 1988 | Greenfield, Jane | A unique glossary with over 700 illustrations for collectors and librarians. | ||
A34 | Zelf Bookbinden | Frigge & Knapp | |||||
A35 | Making Albums for Photos & Paper Collectibles | Horton, Richard W. | |||||
A36 | Making Overcast Cloth – Joined Endpapers | E & T Booklet | |||||
A37 | Historical Photo Albums & their Structures | Horton, Richard W. | |||||
A38 | ABC of Leather Bookbinding | Lhotka, Edward R. | |||||
A39 | Basic Bookbinding | Dover | 1957 | Lewis, A.W. | Detailed instructions in basic bookbinding with step by step illustrations. Excellent for beginners. 144 pages. | ||
A40 | Bookcloth: 1823 to 1980 |
Montecito Press | 1997 | Tomlinson, William & Masters, Richard | A study of early use and rise of manufacture of bookcloth, Winterbottom’s dominance of the trade, costs, methods, qualities, designs. | ||
A41 | The Penland Book of Handmade Books | Lark Books | 2004 | 10 artists | Master classes in bookmaking techniques; introduction by J W McLaughlin, Director of Penland School of Crafts. | ||
A42 | Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings | Merlin International | 2002 | Various | Lectures by Deborah Evetts, Bernard Middleton, Philip Smith, Marianne Tidcombe, Peter Waters, Mirjam Foot at conference in 2000 honouring B C Middleton at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. | ||
A43 | Headbands: How to Work Them | Oak Knoll Press | 2005 | Greenfield, Jane & Hille, Jenny | 12 headbands described with step-by-step drawings. | ||
A44 | Modern Bookbinding | Robert Hale | 1998 | Vaughan, Alex J. | This book was bound by Maureen Duke and covered in calf at a workshop at Morningside TAFE in 1998. The book was later finished in gold leaf and boxed by June McNicol. An accompanying video is in the QBG Library, Catalogue Nos V7, V8. | ||
A45 | Book Binding | Thames & Hudson | 1992 | Johnson, Arthur W | later edition of A10. Good manual for beginners. | ||
A46 | The practical Guide to Craft Bookbinding | Thames & Hudson | 1985 | Johnson, Arthur W | See synopsis for A 11. | ||
A47 | Basic Bookbinding | Dover | 1957 | Lewis, A W | See A39. | ||
A48 | Bookbinding as a School Subject Stage 1 | Russell Bookcrafts | 1938 | Cockerell, Douglas | pamphlet describing basis for binding books of one section (16 pages). | ||
A49 | Bookbinding as a School Subject Stage 3 | Russell Bookcrafts | 1938 | Cockerell, Douglas | pamphlet of 16 pages covering cutting edges and binding in half and whole leather. | ||
A50 | Bookbinding as a School Subject Stage 4 | Heffers Printers | 1938 | Cockerell, Douglas | pamphlet of 16 pages on lettering and simple tooling for older and more experienced pupils. | ||
A51 | Books & Boxes | Search Press | 2003 | Peter Baumgartner | Basic bookbinding techniques; decorative papers; section of how to repair books; glossary of terms. | ||
A52 | Notes for ABC (New Zealand) | Wyvern Bindery | 2005 | Johnson, Arthur W | As patron of the Association of Book Crafts of New Zealand, Mr Johnson had written articles for the ABC’s newsletter, from about 1990 until his death in 2004. 23 of these are printed in Notes for ABC which also contains his autobiography of 13 pages. | ||
A53 | DVDSharpening – the Professional Way | GMC Publications | ND | Kingshott, J | Grinding machines are reviewed and Jim explains how to mount and dress a grinding wheel; this is followed by a discussion of honing and a comprehensive look at stones, natural and man-made, and diamond sharpening systems. | ||
A54 | Practical Bookbinding | Percival Marshall & Co, London Reprinted by NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders | 1992 | Pearce, William Bonner | Aim throughout the book is to present instructions with beginners in mind. 11 chapters cover all aspects of basic bookbinding. This edition was bound by T Rowley Corbett in cloth Bradel style and bears his bookplate. | ||
A55 | DVD – The Exposed Spine Binding | RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2006 | Louise Genest | Demonstration of exposed spine binding in full leather for a multiple section block. | ||
A56 | DVD – A Decorative Leather Covering Technique | RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2006 | Anthony Cains | Demonstration of adopting technique of moulding and manipulating leather during covering process to produce spontaneous design statement. | ||
A57 a/b | DVD – Edge-to-Edge Doublure | RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2006 | Monique Lallier | Using leather or paper, this doublure is a refined and exquisite finish for inner boards of a designer binding. | ||
A58 | DVD – Gold Tooling | RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2006 | Michael Wilcox | Demonstration of egg-glaire technique for gold tooling. | ||
A59 | DVD – The Concave Spine: Rigid Flexibility | RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press | 2006 | James Brockman | Explores historical evidence that book spines naturally adopt concave shape; demonstration and explanation of structure and examination of function of the concave spine. | ||
A60 | DVD – Maureen Duke Binds a Book | Queensland Bookbinders Guild Inc | 1998 | Maureen Duke | Edited version 42 minutes; filmed by Paul Somogyi; edited by Margaret Roper. | ||
A61 | Book Arts | 2004 | Mary Kay Seckler | Useful guide with directions for twelve different bindings. | |||
A62 | Fine bookbinding A technical Guide | The British Library | 2009 | Jen Lindsay | Step by step guide to making a leather bound book. Excellent photography. | ||
A63 | 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring interpretations of a timeless form | Lark Books, New York | 2008 | ||||
A64 | 19th century bookbinding Techniques at the Harcourt Bindery | 2007 | S. Ellenport | Not an educational DVD but showing some of the techniques used in leather binding: Gilding, folding endpapers,making silk fly leaves, attaching the hollow back,faked raised bands, filling in the boards, spine onlay work, flat die stamping for covers and doublures. 64mins. | |||
A65 | Tour of the Harcourt Bindery | 2006 | S. Ellenport | This DVD covers buckram, leather, marbled papers (very interesting), hand made papers, some old machinery like hole punching, perforating, arming press. Thoughts on the future of bookbinding, the book as an object and a fitting conclusion. 67 mins. |