A manual of the art of bookbinding: containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. The whole designed for the practical workman, the amateur, and the book-collector
by Nicholson, James B
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. Stereotyped edition (first published in 1856), 8vo, pp. 318, 23 (ads); frontispiece, 7 samples of marbled paper inserted, as issued, 11 plates of binding designs and a few wood-engravings in the text; original black cloth, gilt title direct on spine, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown; upper joint split, text block shaken, several gatherings extended, spine ends a bit chipped; good. James Bartram Nicholson (1820-1901) spent most of his life in Philadelphia in partnership with the English binder, James Pawson. His is "the first practical manual [on the subject of bookbinding] by an American. Although it was founded upon John Hannett's Bibliopegia (1835), it went farther than that popular work and came to be regarded as the most nearly complete treatise yet published in America" (DNB).
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- Title
- A manual of the art of bookbinding: containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. The whole designed for the practical workman, the amateur, and the book-collector
- Author
- Nicholson, James B
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Carey Baird
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1871
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....