Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages
- Published by: Dover Publications July 2, 1996
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 048629157X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0486291574
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Book Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Description
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, 3 more. Introduction.
Reader Reviews
I have several books on bookbinding but have not found a single book with all of the information I need. This book comes the closest but is weak on doing leather covers, split covers, and alternative sewing methods. The Craft of Bookbinding by Manly Banister covers those subjects nicely but does not help you on making tools, which this book treats reasonably well. I recommend you obtain both of these books for a complete treatment of bookbinding in a fair amount of detail. I'm still looking for that all-encompassing book, though...
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