The art of bookbinding : a practical treatise / by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William, 1853-1930.

Contributor:

Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Series:

Technological handbooks (London, England)

Technological handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bookbinding.

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1890.

Physical Description:

xix, 190 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Edition:

2d ed., rev. and enl.

Place of Publication:

London : G. Bell & Sons, 1890.

Summary:

Part I -- Chapter I. Folding: refolding-machines-gathering -- Chapter II. Beating and rolling: machines -- Chapter III. Collating: interleaving -- Chapter IV. Marking up and sawing in -- Chapter V. Sewing: flexible-ordinary -- Chapter VI. Forwarding -- Chapter VII. Pasting up -- Chapter VIII. Putting on the end papers -- Chapter IX. Trimming -- Chapter X. Gluing up -- Chapter XI. Rounding -- Chapter XII. Backing -- Chapter XIII. Mill-boards -- Chapter XIV. Drawing-in and pressing -- Chapter XV. Cutting -- Chapter XVI. Colouring the edges -- Chapter XVII. Gilt edges -- Chapter XVIII. Head-banding -- Chapter XIX. Preparing for covering: lining up -- Chapter XX. Covering -- Chapter XXI. -- Pasting Down -- Chapter XXII. Calf colouring -- Part II -- Chapter XXIII. Finishing -- General information -- Chapter XXIV. Washing and cleaning -- Glossary -- Index.

Notes:

"Glossary of the technical terms and implements used in bookbinding": p. [173]-179.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Black creative bordering and gold on green cloth.

Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.

OCLC:

2384974