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Hand bookbinding : a manual of instruction / Aldren A. Watson ; illustrations by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Aldren Auld, 1917-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookbinding--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Bookbinding.
- Handicraft--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Handicraft.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, 1996.
- Summary:
- Expert guide to creating fine books by hand. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations, cover materials, tools and equipment, making a slipcase, rebinding an old book, more. Also, 8 specific projects: dust jacket; blank book, single signature; folio; manuscript binding, music binding, three more. Introduction. -- Publisher description. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/dover032/95052594.html
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Materials, tools, and equipment
- Fundamental procedures
- Technical methods
- Binding projects
- Rebinding an old book
- Split cover boards
- Headbanding
- Making a slipcase
- Boxing a set of books
- Designing labels
- Making tools and equipment.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Macmillan Pub. Co., ©1986.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 048629157X
- 9780486291574
- OCLC:
- 33983317
- Online:
- Publisher description
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