The Craft of Bookbinding

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages
• Published by: Dover Publications February 18, 1994
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0486278522
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0486278520
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 10.4 ounces

Product Description
Profusely illustrated step-by-step guide enables you to rebind books, paperbacks, periodicals, more. Book sewing of all types (antique, flexible, lockstitch, whipstitch), plus how to make endpapers, attach headbands, case in, cover with cloth and other materials, add titling and decoration, much else. Updated list of suppliers. 254 illustrations and photographs.


Reader Reviews
This is by far one of the better books on the subject of bookbinding. It treats things such as leather covering, multiple sewing methods, cording, split covers, and finishing with great detail. However, an easier to read book is Hand Bookbinding A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson, which also happens to provide instructions on how to make your own tools, something the reader will find quite useful since tools are very difficult to find. Anyone wishing to get into bookbinding seriously should obtain both books to have a complete treatment of the subject, from tools to final product. I couldn't do without the two of them. Comment | | (Report this)