Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries

On Binding "The fourth is, to retrench & cut off all the superfluous expences, which manv orodieaUv and to no ouroose bestow upon the binding and ornaments of their Books, and to employ it in purchasing such as they want, that so they may not be obnoxious to that * censure of Seneca, who hand-somlv reproaches those, Quibus volumintim suorum frontes maxime placent titulique; & this the rather, that the binding is nothing but an accident & form of appearing, without which (at least so splendid and sumptuous) Books become altogether as useful, commode & rare; it becoming the ignorant onelv to esteem a Book for its cover; seeing it is not with Books, as it is with men, who are onely known and respected for their robes and their clothes, so that it is a great deal better, and more necessary, for example, to have a good quantity of Books, well & ordinarily bound, than to have a little Chamber or Cabinet full of washed, gilded, ruled, and enriched with all manner of nicity, lux and su

Table of Contents

Description of Frontispiece 4; Quotation from :aucie 9; Preface to Second and Re"ised Edition : [1; Table of Contents , 13; List of Illustrations 15; Introductory 17; Binding: the Process Described 26; The Literary Side of Library Rebinding 36; Binding rl'faterials Suitable for- a Library 41; Rebinding for Libraries ~ 44; Lettering and Xumbering the Backs of Books 53; Palnphlets ' " 58; Magazine Binders 6 [; Repairing Books, General Rules 68; Repairing Books, Newark llethods 74; Repairing Books, Materials and Tools 86; Covering Books 90; Leather, General Notes 93; Paper and Paper Jfaking " 10 I; Binding Records ~ IIO; Binding Records and X otes-~ ewark II 2; Bindery Equipment 1[5; List of Technical Terms 1 19; List of :-,:Jakers of and Dealers in Bookbinders'; Materials, Tools and I1achincry 161; A Few of the Best Dooks on Bookbinding,; Paper and Leather 163; Index 169

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