Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries

=Aldine or Italian Style.= Ornaments of solid face without any shading whatever, such as used by Aldus and other early Italian printers. The ornaments are of Arabic character. A...

Books are sent to the bindery and repair department from the delivery department, as the head of the latter department may direct; and the head of the bindery department, or som...

Adam, Paul. Practical bookbinding. Van Nostrand. New York. 1903. $1.25. This is a translation from the German, the author being the director of the Düsseldorf Technical School o...

As the title indicates these notes have been compiled in the hope that they may be of assistance to librarians in caring for the binding and rebinding of library books. They har...

Much of the paper used in books today is made of wood. Wood is converted into paper-making material in three ways. In one, it is cut into convenient lengths, stripped of its bar...

Books are now printed in large sheets from 4 to 64 pages at a time. In many cases paper is drawn from a roll (as it is in the printing of a newspaper), printed on both sides in...

The names given to different kinds of leather come sometimes from the character of its surface, that is, from the "grain," or roughness or corrugation it has; sometimes from the...

It has long been one of the library traditions that magazines used in the reading room should be put into stiff and heavy temporary binders as soon as received, and so arranged,...

The universal rule in this matter is, don't. To this there are exceptions; but many if not most of the books which are repaired are so injured by the process itself, or by the w...

Libraries differ as to bindings in their needs and in their possibilities. Books differ even more. No library can or should exactly follow any one style in its rebinding work. I...

After satisfactory materials and methods of binding for a library have been discovered and adopted, there still remain many questions which can be well answered only by one havi...

Several methods of lettering the backs of books are in use in libraries. The best is gilding. If this is well done with genuine gold it will remain bright for many years, and wi...

The small library will find it does not pay to have a bindery of its own. This is a safe general rule to which there are exceptions, of course. Special conditions, such as remot...

In spite of the remarks heretofore made about the injury often done to books by repairing them, even when the repairs are cleverly made, it is well for any library, however smal...

Few libraries now cover their books. The reasons for covering them usually given are, that the paper covers gather dust less easily than do the publisher's cloth bindings; and t...

The Newark Library has tried many experiments in the choice of materials. It finds that thin, imported, acid-free pigskin, first used in this country by Mr. Chivers, is the best...

The subject of the care of pamphlets in a library does not come within the field of these notes; but it may be proper to say that experience and observation have led me to the c...

Remove book slip, having first compared its number with the number on the book pocket. This book slip is stamped with the word Bindery and with the date, and then is filed with...

By binding records are meant the reports of books sent to the bindery, their return, styles, cost, etc. There are many ways of keeping these. For the small library great simplic...