Bookbinding, and the Care of Books / A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians

by Douglas Cockerell

VIII.—Niger morocco, executed by a student of the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Actual size, 11¾″ × 9¼″.

INDEX

• Arming press, [229], [313]
• Arms blocks, [228]
• Art paper, [48], [282]
• Autograph letters, [179]
• Backing, [117]
• Backing hammer, [123]
• Back, lining up, [152]
• Band nippers, [160], [163]
• Bands, [313]
• Bandstick, [160]
• Beating, [90]
• Beating stone, [90], [313]
• Benzine, [207], [209]
• Binding, decoration of, [21], [30], [188], [233]
• Binding, collotype reproductions of, [321]-[336]
• Binding, embroidered, [186]
• Binding early printed books, [31], [46], [113]
• Binding, extra, [308]
• Binding, jewelled, [263]
• Binding, library, [27], [173], [308]
• Binding, manuscripts, [31], [108], [113], [125], [135], [223]
• Binding, metal-covered, [263]
• Binding, vellum, [180]
• Binding very thin books, [177]
• Blind tooling, [188], [222]
• Blocking press, [229], [313]
• Blocks, striking, [229]
• Boards, [124]
• Boards, attaching, [132]
• Boards, cutting, [125]
• Boards, filling in, [170]
• Boards, lining, [129]
• Boards, pressing, [193], [210]
• Boards, split, [28], [175], [311]
• Bodkin, [114]
• Bookbinding as a profession, [32]
• Books in sheets, [34]
• Bookworms, [297]
• Borders, designing, [240]
• Borders, inside, [253]
• Calf, [27], [277]
• Cancelled sheets, [43]
• Cased books, [19], [49]
• Castor oil, [303]
• Catch stitch, [99]
• Catch words, [314]
• Celluloid, sheets of, [161]
• Centres, designing, [241]
• Chrome leather, [276]
• Clasps and ties, [183], [259]
• Cleaning off back, [137]
• Cloth casing, [19], [49]
• Cloth joints, [86], [257]
• Cobden-Sanderson, T. J., xii., [22]
• Cockroaches, [300]
• Cocoanut oil, [200]
• Collating, [43]
• Colouring edges, [144]
• Combining tools to form patterns, [232]
• Compasses, [131]
• Cord sewing, [111]
• Corners, mitring, [165], [168]
• Cousin, Jules, [74], [299]
• Covering, [23], [159], [176], [310]
• Crushing the grain of leather, [192]
• Cutting in boards, [139]
• Cutting mill-boards, [124]
• Cutting press, [128]
• Damp, effect of, on bindings, [294]
• Decoration of bindings, [21], [30], [188], [233]
• Designing tools, [230]
• Diaper patterns, [236]
• Dividers, [51]
• Dots, striking, [205]
• Doubluves, [253], [314]
• Dressing for old bindings, [302]
• Dust and dusting, [296]
• Early printed books, binding, [31], [46], [113]
• Edge colouring, [144]
• Edge gauffering, [144]
• Edge gilding, [95], [144]
• Edge sizing, [95], [146]
• Edges, painted, [146]
• Embroidered bindings, [186]
• End papers, [80], [254]
• End, painted, [83]
• End, vellum, [84]
• Ends, silk, [84]
• Entering, [33]
• Evelyn’s Diary (quotation), [282]
• “Extra” binding, [308], [314]
• False bands, [26]
• Fillet, [190], [206]
• Fillet, small, [206], [246]
• Filling in boards, [170]
• Finishing, [191]
• Finishing press, [194]
• Finishing tools, [188]
• Finishing stove, [195]
• Flattening vellum, [65]
• Folder, [164]
• Folding, [36]
• Fraying out slips, [114]
• French joint, [176]
• French paring knife, [156]
• French standing press, [91]
• Gas fumes, effect of, [291]
• Gathering, [35]
• Gauffering edges, [144]
• Gelatine, [70]
• Gilding edges, [95], [144]
• Gilt top, [92]
• Glaire, [97], [198]
• Glass, tinted, for libraries, [292]
• Glossary, [313]
• Glue, [289]
• Glueing up, [115]
• Goatskin, [277]
• Gold cushion, [200]
• Gold leaf, [199]
• Gold knife, [200]
• Gold, net for, [96]
• Gold, pad for, [201]
• Gold tooling, [188], [191]
• Gouges, [189], [205], [247]
• Groove (see [Joint])
• Guarding, [42], [53]
• Guarding plates, [50], [56], [316]
• Hammer, backing, [123]
• Hand-made paper, [280]
• Headbanding, [108], [147], [176]
• Headcaps, [156], [166]
• Heat, effect of, on bindings, [295]
• Heraldry on bindings, [227]
• Hinging plates, [57]
• Hollow backs, [25], [185]
• Imperfections, [35]
• India proofs, soaking off, [62]
• India proofs, mounting, [63]
• Indiarubber for gold, [207]
• Inlaying leather, [213], [232], [243]
• Inlaying leaves or plates, [64]
• Inset, [40], [315]
• Inside margins, [253]
• Jaconet, [60], [64]
• Japanese paper, [282]
• Japanese vellum, [282]
• Jewelled bindings, [263]
• Joint, [165], [169]
• Joint, cloth, [86], [257]
• Joint, French, [176]
• Joint, knocking out, [53]
• Joint, leather, [86], [171]
• Kettle stitch, [49], [99], [105]
• Keys, sewing, [101]
• Knife, mountcutters’, [54]
• Knife, French paring, [156]
• Knife, gold, [200]
• Knife, plough, [129], [139]
• Knocking down iron, [53], [134]
• Knocking out joints, [53]
• Knot, [100], [106]
• Lacing in slips, [132]
• Lay cords, [100]
• Laying press (see [Lying press])
• Leather, [27], [263]
• Leather, chrome, [276]
• Leather, crushing grain of, [192]
• Leather, inlaying, [213], [232], [243]
• Leather joints, [86], [171]
• Leather, paring, [154]
• Leather, polishing, [191]
• Leather, sprinkling and marbling, [27], [279]
• Leather, stretching, [23], [161]
• Leather, testing, [274]
• Leather work, [226]
• Leaves, inlaying, [64]
• Lettering, [28], [215], [246]
• Letters, autograph, [179]
• Library binding, [27], [173], [308]
• Light, effect of, on leather, [292]
• Lining up back, [152]
• Lithographic stone, [157], [160]
• Loose covers, [304]
• Lying press, [128]
• Manuscripts, binding of, [31], [108], [113], [125], [135], [223]
• Manuscripts, collating, [46]
• Maps, throwing out, [60]
• Marbled paper, [83]
• Margins, inside, [253]
• Marking up, [98]
• Materials for sewing, [111]
• Mending, [76]
• Mending tooling, [208]
• Mending vellum, [79]
• Metal on bindings, [262]
• Millboards, [124]
• Millboard machine, [127], [315]
• Millboard shears, [126]
• Mitring corners, [165], [168]
• Morocco, [277]
• Morocco, “Persian,” [271]
• Mount-cutters’ knife, [54]
• Mounting India-proofs, [63]
• Mounting very thin paper, [63]
• Net for gilding edges, [96]
• Niger morocco, [278]
• Nipping press, [211]
• Nippers, band, [160], [163]
• Oil, cocoanut, [200]
• Opening newly-bound books, [257]
• Overcasting, [51]
• “Overs,” [35]
• Oxalic acid, use of, [173]
• Pad for gold, [201]
• Paging, [44]
• Painted edges, [146]
• Painted end papers, [83]
• Pallets, [189]
• Paper, [280]
• Paper, art, [48], [283]
• Paper, hand-made, [280]
• Paper, Japanese, [282]
• Paper, marbled, [83]
• Paper, sizes of, [36], [283]
• Paper, sizing, [67]
• Paper, splitting, [63]
• Paper, washing, [71]
• Paraffin wax, [303]
• Paring leather, [154]
• Paring paper, [61]
• Paring stone, [157], [160]
• Pastes, [286]
• Paste water, [198]
• Pasting down end papers, [254]
• Patterns, [232]
• “Peel,” [316]
• Permanent binding, [19]
• “Persian” morocco, [271]
• Pigskin, [278]
• Plates, detaching, [48]
• Plates, guarding, [56]
• Plates, hinging, [57]
• Plates, inlaying, [64]
• Plates, trimming, [40]
• Plough, [128]
• Plough knife, [129], [139]
• Polishing, [191]
• Preserving old bindings, [302]
• Press, arming, [229], [313]
• Press, blocking, [229], [313]
• Press, cutting, [128]
• Press, finishing, [194]
• Press, lying, [128]
• Press, nipping, [211]
• Press pin, [316]
• Press, sewing (see [Sewing frame])
• Press, standing, [88]
• Pressing boards, [193], [210]
• Pressing in boards, [138]
• Pressing plates, [192], [316]
• Pressing sections, [87]
• “Proof,” [316]
• Publishers’ binding, [20]
• Pulling to pieces, [46]
• Quarter sections, [42]
• Quires, books in, [34]
• Rats and mice, [299]
• Re-backing, [305]
• Re-binding, [18], [306]
• Refolding, [51]
• Register of printing, [52], [316]
• Representations of bindings, [321]-[336]
• Roll, [190]
• Rounding, [117]
• Sawing in, [20], [25], [100], [108]
• Scrap books, [178]
• Sealskin, [278]
• Sections, pressing, [87]
• Sewing, [100]
• Sewing cord, [111]
• Sewing frame, [100]
• Sewing keys, [101]
• Sewing on tapes, [26], [111], [174]
• Sewing on vellum slips, [111], [181]
• Sewing silk, [112]
• Sewing, tape for, [112]
• Sewing thread, [112]
• Sheepskin, [277]-[308]
• Sheets, books in, [34]
• Sheets, waterproof, [161]
• Signatures, [34], [43]
• Silk ends, [84]
• Silk sewing, [112]
• Sizes of paper, [36], [283]
• Sizing, [67]
• Sizing edges, [95]-[146]
• Sizing leather, [198]
• Sizing paper, [67]
• Slips, [317]
• Slips, fraying out, [114]
• Slips, lacing in, [132]
• Soaking off India proofs, [62]
• Society of Arts, Report of Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, [22], [264]
• Society of Arts, Report of Committee on Paper, [284]
• Specifications, [308]
• Split boards, [28], [175], [311]
• Splitting paper, [63]
• Sprinkling leather, [27], [279]
• Squares, [131], [153], [317]
• Standing press, [88]
• Standing press, French, [89], [91]
• Staples, wire, [49]
• “Starred” sheets, [43]
• Stove, finishing, [195]
• Stone, lithographic, [157], [160]
• Striking dots, [205]
• Striking tools, [204]
• Tape, sewing on, [26], [112], [174]
• Temporary binding, [20]
• Testing leather, [274]
• Thin books, binding, [177]
• Thin paper, mounting, [63]
• Thread, sewing, [112]
• Throwing out maps, [60]
• Ties and clasps, [183], [259]
• Tobacco smoke, effect of, on binding, [294]
• Tooling, blind, [188], [222]
• Tooling, gold, [24], [188], [191]
• Tooling on vellum, [212]
• Tools, designing, [188], [230]
• Tools, finishing, [188], [230]
• Training for bookbinding, [32]
• Trimming before sewing, [93]
• Trimming machine, [94]
• Trimming plates, [40]
• Tub, [317]
• Tying up, [167]
• Varnish, [209]
• Vellum binders, [26]
• Vellum bindings, [180]
• Vellum ends, [84]
• Vellum, flattening, [65]
• Vellum, Japanese, [282]
• Vellum, mending, [79]
• Vellum slips, sewing on, [111], [183]
• Vellum tooling on, [212]
• Walker, Emery, [216]
• Washing, [71]
• Waterproof sheets, [161]
• Weaver’s knot, [106]
• Wooden boards, [32], [135], [223], [330]
• Worm holes, [78], [297]

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