Difference between revisions of "C19 Bookbinding Session"

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**decorative paper any bookbinder could do
 
**decorative paper any bookbinder could do
 
**Mostly German
 
**Mostly German
*Transitions: spine labeling
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*Transitions: spine labeling on paper bindings
 
**Blank -> handwritten (all unique) -> printed: a way to date binding
 
**Blank -> handwritten (all unique) -> printed: a way to date binding
*Paste paper with leather spine (1787)
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*Recuil historique sur des Etats Gener - Paste paper with leather spine (1787)
 
**handle lettering: one off usually (vs. edition)
 
**handle lettering: one off usually (vs. edition)
 
**very hard to do gilt tooling well: have to do in blind first
 
**very hard to do gilt tooling well: have to do in blind first
 
**Paul Bonet - bookbinder - whoever did his gilt tooling was the best
 
**Paul Bonet - bookbinder - whoever did his gilt tooling was the best
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*1820s British printed paper bindings
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**glue starting to come in as a way of holding gatherings together
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***gutta-percha

Revision as of 15:50, 26 April 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