Difference between revisions of "C19 Bookbinding Session"
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**leather spines are a clue that it's in its final, intended binding | **leather spines are a clue that it's in its final, intended binding | ||
*Next: bookcloth | *Next: bookcloth | ||
| + | 5.3.17 | ||
| + | *Period vs. rebound | ||
| + | **American C18: calf, medium-brown, cracked at spine is the identification key (Freneau's Poems) | ||
| + | **Example of acid in leather leeching out into pastedowns, title page, endsheets | ||
| + | **Poor paper quality in C18 paper | ||
| + | **Tree-calf - painted or acid-etched | ||
| + | *Rebound | ||
| + | **grained: calf trying to look like goat-skin (little pebbles) | ||
| + | ***goatskin doesn't flake off, you can tell when the calf starts flaking away at the spine the way calf breaks down | ||
| + | **fad for making binders look fancy - calf looks nice but is more brittle | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 3 May 2017
From the UW binding collection
- c18 paper wrappers - 1734 French Recuil de Pouesies Prouvencalos (Berte, 1734)
- glued to spine
- cover is short - too small for text block
- quires sown so as to be easily removed - utilitarian
- these especially common in France
- Appel au Tribunal de l'Opinion Publique, Mounier (1790, Geneva)
- trimmed deckle edges: decided to be "final" binding
- des bib useful for understanding how it came off the press
- color of paper from rag content - not dyed (bluish grey, lighter grey)
- Marbling
- marbling tray
- allum makes color stick
- version of watercolor, which is floated on size: you have 2-3 min to be able to manipulate color
- size: caraginan moss infused water - sticky
- lay paper on size without air bubbles
- wash off: allum makes color stick
- editions difficult
- Richard Wolf - marbling
- Paste paper: Herodian, Herodians lebens-leshchreibung de romischen kaiser (1784)
- waste paper pressed and dried
- colored with whatever you have around
- decorative paper any bookbinder could do
- Mostly German
- Transitions: spine labeling on paper bindings
- Blank -> handwritten (all unique) -> printed: a way to date binding
- Recuil historique sur des Etats Gener - Paste paper with leather spine (1787)
- handle lettering: one off usually (vs. edition)
- very hard to do gilt tooling well: have to do in blind first
- Paul Bonet - bookbinder - whoever did his gilt tooling was the best
- 1820s British printed paper bindings
- glue starting to come in as a way of holding gatherings together
- gutta-percha
- glue starting to come in as a way of holding gatherings together
- Watman - wove paper (to "improve" on chainlines)
- printed label on paper-on-board binding
- printed cloth on press board
- Harper's Family Library - good for collecting (inexpensive)
- spotting on paper = foxing
- leather spines are a clue that it's in its final, intended binding
- Next: bookcloth
5.3.17
- Period vs. rebound
- American C18: calf, medium-brown, cracked at spine is the identification key (Freneau's Poems)
- Example of acid in leather leeching out into pastedowns, title page, endsheets
- Poor paper quality in C18 paper
- Tree-calf - painted or acid-etched
- Rebound
- grained: calf trying to look like goat-skin (little pebbles)
- goatskin doesn't flake off, you can tell when the calf starts flaking away at the spine the way calf breaks down
- fad for making binders look fancy - calf looks nice but is more brittle
- grained: calf trying to look like goat-skin (little pebbles)
