The Bookbinder's Manual Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding Also, Directions for Gilding of Paper & Book-edges:: And Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, & Marbling Together with a Scale of Bookbinder's Charges a List of All the Book and Vellum Binders in London, &c. &c..William Strange, 1833 - 126 pagina's |
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The Bookbinder's Manual: Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum ... George Cowie Volledige weergave - 1829 |
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Pagina 76 - ... which must be put into a trough, or some broad vessel; then with a stick curl them, or draw them out in streaks, to as much variety as may be done. Having done this, hold your book, or books, close together, and only dip the edges in, on the top of the water and colours, very lightly ; which done, take them off, and...
Pagina 75 - ... or whirls, according to the pattern required, and laid on according to direct-ions which will be given presently. The paper should be previously prepared for receiving the colours, by dipping it overnight in water, and laying the sheets on each other with a weight over them. The sheet of paper must be held by two corners, and laid in the most gentle and even manner on the solution covered with the colours, and there softly pressed with the hand that it may bear everywhere on the solution...
Pagina 79 - Raife the .plate, by lifting up one end; and it will be found veined, in every direction, by the...
Pagina 5 - ... ascertain ; but Phillatius, a learned Athenian, was the first who pointed out the use of a particular kind of glue for fastening the leaves of a book together; an invention which his countrymen thought of such importance as to entitle him to a statue. The most ancient mode of binding consisted in gluing the different leaves together and attaching them to cylinders of wood, round which they were rolled. This is called Egyptian, binding ; and continued to be practised long after the age of Augustus.
Pagina 5 - ... gluing the different leaves together and attaching them to cylinders of wood, round which they were rolled. This is called Egyptian, binding ; and continued to be practised long after the age of Augustus. It is now wholly disused, except in oriental countries, and in Jewish Synagogues, where they still continue to write books of the law on slips of vellum sewed together, so as to form only one long page, with a roller at each extremity, furnished with clasps of gold or silver.
Pagina 79 - ... on every part of the plate, which •will vein or marble the silk, linen, &c.
Pagina 53 - ... stout board, as before described, care being taken in this instance to form a deep narrow, rather than a round band. Strong pieces of canvass or buckram are then glued at the top and bottom of the back, and between each of the vellum slips. A hollow back is prepared by taking a slip of milled board, about a quarter of an inch wider than the back of the book, and soaking it in water ; it is then glued on both sides, and left in this state for about ten minutes : having been laid on a sheet of...
Pagina 5 - At what time the art of BOOK-BINDING was first invented it is impossible to ascertain ; but Phillatius, a learned Athenian, was the first who pointed out the use of a particular kind of glue for fastening the leaves of a book together; an invention which his countrymen thought of such importance as to entitle him to a statue. The most ancient mode of binding consisted in gluing the different leaves together and attaching them to cylinders of wood, round which they were rolled.
Pagina 85 - Make a brine of salt and water, in the proportion of a quarter of a pound of salt to a quart of water ; put the walnuts into this to soak for a week ; or if you...
Pagina 79 - ... sheet of paper; on the coloured size thus spread lay a strong plate of glass, or one of tin, or copper, or a thin piece of board, pressing the plate (of whatever sort) gently with the hand on every part, raise the plate by lifting up one end, and it...