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The Art of Bookbinding

The Art of Bookbinding

by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf

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Author
Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William, 1853-1930
Title
The Art of Bookbinding: A practical treatise, with plates and diagrams
Credits
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
Z: Bibliography, Library science
Subject
Bookbinding
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 51213
Release Date
February 14, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE ART OF BOOK­BIND­ING. A PRAC­TI­CAL TREA­TISE. BY JO­SEPH W. ZAEHNS­DORF. — PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. — LIST OF PLATES. — CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION. — PART I. FORWARDING. — THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. CHAPTER I. F OLDING. — CHAPTER II. B EATING AND R OLLING. — CHAPTER III. C OLLATING. — CHAPTER IV. M ARKING UP AND S AWING IN. — CHAPTER V. S EWING. — CHAPTER VI. F ORWARDING. — CHAPTER VII. P ASTING U P. — CHAPTER VIII. P UTTING ON THE E ND P APERS. — CHAPTER IX. T RIMMING. — CHAPTER X. G LUEING UP. — CHAPTER XI. R OUNDING. — CHAPTER XII. B ACKING. — CHAPTER XIII. M ILL-BOARDS. — CHAPTER XIV. D RAWING-IN AND P RESSING. — CHAPTER XV. C UTTING. — CHAPTER XVI. C OLOURING THE E DGES. — CHAPTER XVII. G ILT E DGES. — CHAPTER XVIII. H EAD-BANDING. — CHAPTER XIX. P REPARING FOR C OVERING. — CHAPTER XX. C OVERING. — CHAPTER XXI. P ASTING D OWN. — CHAPTER XXII. C ALF C OLOURING.
  2. 2.PART II. FINISHING. — CHAPTER XXIII. F INISHING.
  3. 3.GENERAL INFORMATION. — CHAPTER XXIV. W ASHING AND C LEANING. — M ANIPULATION. — GLOSSARY OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS AND IMPLEMENTS USED IN BOOKBINDING.
  4. 4.INDEX.

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