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Tricks of the trade : confessions of a bookbinder / Jamie Kamph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamph, Jamie, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kamph, Jamie, 1946-.
- Kamph, Jamie.
- Kamph, Jamie, 1942-.
- Bookbinding.
- Books--Conservation and restoration.
- Books.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 134 pages : illustrations (some in color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Confessions
- A bookbinder's perspective, or how I got here
- Assimilating old ideas
- Fine weather for bookbinding
- Medicine cabinet/Tool chest
- Coming unglued
- Paper unglued
- Paper first
- Attachments, directions, and warp
- Zigzag endpapers
- Smoother shoulders
- Backbone
- Paring essentials
- Headband tips
- Headcaps and patches
- Speaking of corners
- Joint repair, a simple solution
- Cloth casings: The wrong method in the right place
- Better rebacking
- A word about paper bindings
- Patterns
- Breaking the gilding rules
- Gold tooling chart
- How to cheat at gold tooling
- For the love of Samuel Johnson
- Out of order
- The formidable family Bible
- Running out of ideas.
- Notes:
- Includes biographical note on the author.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1584563346
- 9781584563341
- 9781584563327
- 158456332X
- OCLC:
- 897775594
- Publisher Number:
- 99963924449
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