Book Binder

Find various books on being a Book Binder, from fact, to fiction. SA Career Focus has assembled these titles for your convenience.

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Bookbinder physically assembles a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material.

Bookbinders at Work: Their Roles and Methods

The role of the bookbinder and the significance of the binding have often been disregarded by bibliographers. The author sets out to reverse the trend, by establishing working binders, their materials and tools, as an essential part of the production cycle. She reveals the inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack binding information.

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In-House Book Binding and Repair

McQueen, U. of Kentucky library school, has done a workmanlike job that is unusual only in its 30 pages of ideas for administrators on setting up a binding/repair studio. The repair portion, 60 pages, covers material that is accessible in many other manuals. The last 25 pages include a glossary, list of suppliers, web resources, and a bibliography.

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The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair Manual for Book Lovers

This title is a booklovers' delight. Here in one witty, instructive volume is everything needed to know about storing, cleaning, fixing, shelving, mending, oiling, mailing, dusting, pasting, binding, gluing, debugging, deodorizing, and otherwise guaranteeing a long shelf life for your treasured tomes. The authors I are professional booksellers who know exactly what supplies! to use, where to get them, how to use them, and how to weed a collection. Their aim is to help all booklovers to preserve their own books without great expense, inordinate effort, or extensive training. This is a splendid gift for anyone who cherishes their books.

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Bookbinding: The Classic Arts and Crafts Manual

Considered by many bookbinders and librarians to be the clearest and most valuable exposition of hand bookbinding in English, this volume concisely covers virtually every aspect of the craft--from folding and collating pages, trimming and gilding edges and cutting and attaching boards to preparing covers, designing and inlaying on leather, and creating clasps and ties. A "must-have" for craftspeople, libraries, and book preservationists. 120 figures. 8 halftones.

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