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.

by James B. Nicholson

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• Affixing the stamps, [279], [280].
• Agatine marble, on leather, [249].
• Aldine, [198].
• Aldus, [198].
• Anonay paper, [150].
• Antique, [231].
  • bands, [147].
  • marble, [117].
  • Dutch, [123].
• Arabesque, [210].
• Assyrian, [179].
• Aqua Regia, [237].
• Backing-machine,[173].
• Backs, flexible, [54], [55].
  • India-rubber, [58].
• Backing books, [43].
• Bands, in finishing, [269].
• Bands, raised, [53], [54].
  • parchment, [57].
• Baumgarten, [20].
• Beating, [41], [42].
• Beating-hammer, [42].
• Beckford, [206].
• Bedford, [28].
• Benedict, [20].
• Bible, chained in churches, [16].
• Bibliographical Decameron, [14], [26], [135].
• Bindings of Corvinus, [14].
  • of Henry VII., [16].
  • of Henry VIII., [17].
  • of Elizabeth, [17].
  • of Grolier, [17].
  • of Maioli, [18].
  • of Diana of Poictiers, [18].
  • of Henry II., [18].
  • of De Thou, [19].
  • of the Chevalier D'Eon, [19].
  • of Oxford, [20].
  • of Mackinlay, [21].
  • of Roger Payne, [21-23].
  • of Mackenzie, [28].
  • of Charles Lewis, [28].
  • of Clarke, [28].
  • of Riviere, [28].
  • of Bedford, [28].
  • of Hayday, [28].
  • of Napoleon, [30].
  • of Lortic, [31].
  • of Duru, [32].
  • of Niédré, [32].
• Bindings of Bauzonnet, [32], [142].
• Black, for marbling, [85], [91].
  • edges, [136].
  • ink, [156], [157].
  • for blank-work, [165].
  • for marbling leather, [241].
  • for leather, [259].
  • lines, [268].
• Blacking the squares, [268].
• Blank binding, [151].
• Bleeding, [68].
• Blind tooling, [230].
• Block-finishing, [279].
• Blue, for edges, [78].
  • for marbling, [85], [89], [90], [105].
  • ink, [156].
  • for marbling leather, [242].
  • uniform colour for leather, [258].
• Blue agate marble on leather, [249].
  • Stormont marble, [105].
• Boards, mode of making, [65].
  • squaring, [66].
• Boarding, blank-work, [160].
  • printed work, [169].
• Box marble, on leather, [253].
• British marble, [119].
• Brown, for edges, [79].
  • for marbling, [86], [91].
  • for marbling leather, [241], [242].
  • uniform colour for leather, [257].
• Burnt ochre, [88].
• Burnishing, [126], [129], [133].
• Byzantine, [181].
• Cambridge, [208].
  • binding, [19].
• Cancels, [40].
• Caoutchouc, [58].
• Capé, [31], [32].
• Carved oak boards, description of, [12], [211].
  • precious stones let into, [12], [14].
• Case-work, stamping, [283].
• Cedar sprinkle, on leather, [253].
• Chemical preparations, [237].
• Chinese blue, [89].
• Chrome, [90].
• Clarke, [28].
• Clasps, [167].
• Cleanliness, [276].
• Cloth-work, [170].
• Collating, [39].
  • description of, [39], [40].
• Coleridge, [190].
• Colours, for edges, [74-82].
  • for marbling, [84].
  • grinding, [98].
  • uniform, for leather, [256].
  • harmony of, [272].
• Colouring, for leather, [236].
• Comb marble, [115].
• Combs, for marbling, [127].
• Corners, [167].
• Corvinus, library of, [14].
• Covering, [141].
  • blank-work, [163].
  • Cropping, [67].
  • Curl marble, [109].
  • Cutting in boards, [72].
  • Cutting-machines, [288].
• Dawson, [20].
• Derome, [18], [19], [67].
• De Seuil, [18], [19].
• Design, [186].
• Designing, [286].
• De Thou, bindings of, [19].
• Dibdin, his account of the library of Corvinus, [14].
  • of Roger Payne, [26], [191], [195].
• Diptych, description of, [11].
• Drag Spanish marble, [114].
• Drop ivory black, [91].
• Drop lake, [86].
• Duru, [31], [32].
• Dutch marble, [120].
• Dutch pink, [90].
• Edges, colouring and sprinkling, [74].
  • colours for, [74-79].
  • blue, [78].
  • yellow, [78].
  • green, [78].
  • orange, [78].
  • red, [78].
  • purple, [79].
  • brown, [79].
  • black, [136].
  • rice marbled, [80].
  • white spotted, [80].
  • fancy marbled, [81].
  • gold sprinkle, [81].
  • marbled, [82], [125].
  • burnishing, [126], [129].
  • gilt, [130].
  • antique, [134].
  • gold upon marble, [135].
  • black, [136].
• Edge-gilding, [130].
  • antique, [134].
  • on marble, [135].
  • on landscapes, [135].
• Eighteenmo, [36].
• Elizabethan, [184].
• End-papers, [59], [60], [273].
• Etruscan, [180].
• Eyton, J. W. King, binding belonging to, [28], [29].
• Fair agate marble, on leather, [249].
• Falkner, [28].
• Fancy titles, [221], [271].
• Fawn, colour for leather, [244].
• Finishing, blank-work, [168].
• Finisher's standing press, [275].
• Flea-seed, [94].
• Flexible, mode of sewing, [53].
  • marking off, [54], [55].
• Folding, [35].
  • blank-work, [157].
• Folio, [36].
• Font Hill, [150], [205].
• Forwarding, job-work, mode of operation, [59].
  • making end-papers, [60].
  • putting in joints, [61].
  • glueing up, rounding, [62].
  • backing, [63], [64].
  • cutting, [65], [70].
  • making boards, [65].
  • squaring, [66].
  • lacing in, [68].
  • pastewashing back, [69].
  • cutting round, [71].
  • turning up, [73].
• Foundation-plate, [279].
• Gilding, preparations for, [216].
  • the back, [217].
  • the squares, [223].
  • the sides, [224].
  • on silk and velvet, [225].
• Gilt edges, [130].
  • upon marbled, [135].
• Glaire, for marbling leather, [240].
• Gold marble on leather, [260].
• Gold sprinkle, [81].
• Gothic, [183].
• Grafton, the printer, [16].
• Grained sheep, [282].
• Graining, [231].
• Grolier, bindings of, [17].
  • style, [212].
• Green, for edges, [78].
  • for blank-work, [164].
  • for leather, [244].
  • uniform colour for leather, [258].
  • agate marble on leather, [249].
  • Italian marble, [106].
  • porphyry marble on leather, [250].
• Greek, [180].
• Gum, [92].
  • directions for preparing for marbling, [93].
• Guards, sewing on, [53], [56].
  • mode of mounting, [56].
• Gum-sandarac, [226].
• Harleian, [202].
• Harmony of colours, [272].
• Half-binding, [149].
• Hayday, [28], [29], [232].
• Headbands, [137].
  • single, [138].
  • double, [140].
  • gold and silver, [140].
  • ribbon, [141].
• Heat, degree required for stamping, [282].
• Hints to book-collectors, [292].
• Henry VII., time of, [16].
  • VIII., bindings of, [17].
• Hering, [28].
• Holbein, [213].
• Hydraulic press, [45].
• Illuminated binding, [227].
• Imperfections in old books, [290].
• Indigo, [89].
• Inlaid work, [229].
  • ornaments, [270].
• Irish moss, [94].
• Italian marble, [106].
• Janseniste, [208].
• Joint, mode of forming, [63].
• Joints, inside, [273].
• Kalthœber, [20].
• Kettle-stitch, [51], [53], [55].
• Keys for securing bands on sewing-bench, [49].
  • detaching, [57].
• Lacing in, [68].
• Landscapes on sides, [263].
  • transferred, [264].
• Lapis Lazuli marble on leather, [261].
• Lay on, [218].
• Leland's Itinerary, [14].
  
• Lettering-press, [283].
• Levant marble on leather, [249].
• Levant morocco, [31], [142].
• Lewis, Charles, [28].
• Light Italian marble, [106].
• Lilac, for leather, [243].
• Lining-papers, mode of making, [60].
• Linseed, [94].
• Lortic, [31], [32].
• Louis Quatorze, [184].
• Mackenzie, [28].
• Mackinlay, John, [20].
  • bindings of, [21].
• Mahogany sprinkle on leather, [253].
• Maioli, [18].
• Malacca tin, [238].
• Marbling on leather, [246-254].
  • on paper sides, [254].
• Marbling-water for leather, [240].
• Marbled cloth, [128].
• Marbled edges, [125].
  • gilt upon, [135].
• Making cases, [174].
• Missals, antiquity of, [10].
• Mitreing, [219].
• Modernized monastic, [231].
• Montague, [201].
• Moorish, [182].
• Niédré, [31], [32].
• Nonpareil, [115].
  • raked, [116].
  • reversed, [116].
• Numerical proportions of colours, [272].
• Nutmeg sprinkle on leather, [255].
• Oak boards, [15], [211].
• Octavo, [36].
• Old bindings, [289].
• Olive, for leather, [258].
• Orange, for edges, [78].
  • for marbling, [86], [91].
  • for leather, [244].
• Orange lead, [91].
• Ornamental art, [178].
• Oxford, bindings of, [20].
• Oxford ochre, [88].
• Ox-gall, [96].
• Padeloup, [18].
• Paging-machine, [154].
• Paper and book trimmer, [288].
• Paring-knife, [149].
• Pasting down, [273].
• Payne, Roger, history of, [21].
  • his bindings, [23].
  • bill of, [25].
  • his favourite colour, [26].
• Pearl-gray for leather, [258].
• Petit, Bernard, bindings designed by, [18].
• Phillatius the Athenian, [9].
• Pictures on calf, [266].
• Pickering, [200].
• Plates, mode of sewing, [53].
• Polishing, [234].
• Porphyry marble on leather, [251].
• Porphyry vein marble on leather, [251].
• Preparations for marbling, [96].
  • chemical, [237].
  • for stamping, [281].
  • for gilding, [216].
  • for marbling leather, [240].
• Press-work, [279].
• Primary colours, [272].
• Prints on calf, [266].
• Progress of the art, [10], [33].
• Prussian blue, [90].
• Purple, for edges, [79].
  • for blank-work, [165].
  • for leather, [243].
  • marble on leather, [248].
• Quarto, [36].
• Raw ochre, [90].
• Red, for edges, [78].
  • for marbling, [85-88].
  • ink, [156].
  • for blank-work, [164].
  • for leather, [245].
• Red porphyry marble on leather, [250].
• Register, [137].
• Renaissance, [183].
• Restoring old bindings, [289].
• Revival, [183].
• Rock marble on leather, [252].
• Rolling-machine, substitute for beating; mode of operation;
• advantages and disadvantages of, [43], [44].
• Roman, [181].
• Rose-pink, [87].
• Rounding, [62].
• Rice marble, [80].
• Ring sprinkle on leather, [255].
• Riviere, [28].
• Ruling, [152].
• Run up, [220].
• Russian bands, [165].
• Sawing, [48], [49].
• Sawing-machine, [171].
• Scraping, [132].
• Secondary colours, [272].
• Setting the head, [145].
  • the stamp, [281].
• Set off, [42], [43].
• Sewing, process of, [49], [50].
  • two sheets on, [50].
  • all along; quartos; plates or maps, [52].
  • whipping, sewing on guards, [53].
  • on raised bands; pure flexible, [54], [55], [56].
  • blank-work, [159].
• Sewing-bench, [49], [50].
• Shell marble, [100], [103], [104].
• Sheriffs of Shropshire, [28].
• Sheet-work, [35].
• Silk lining, [274].
• Sixteenmo, [36].
• Sizing the paper, [127].
• Slate, uniform colour for leather, [259].
• Smasher, substitute for beating, [44].
  • mode of operation; amount of pressure; advantage of, [45].
• Spanish marble, [110].
  • olive, [111].
  • blue, [112].
  • brown, [112].
  • fancy, [113].
  • drag, [114].
• Spring-back, blank-work, [161].
• Sprinkles, [255], [256].
• Sprinkling, mode of, [75], [76].
  • colours for, [74].
  • rice-marble, [80].
  • white spot, [80].
  • gold sprinkle, [81].
• Staggemier, [20].
• Stamping, [279].
• Steamboating, [172].
• Stabbing, [68].
• Steel gouges, [271].
• Stone marble, on leather, [248].
• Sunk boards, [285].
• Supplying imperfections in old books, [290].
• Table-shears, [177].
• Taste, [186].
• Technical terms, [297-310].
• Tertiary colours, [272].
• Thirty-twomo, [36].
• Thouvenin, bindings of, [30].
• Titles, [269].
  • fancy, [271].
• Tortoise-shell sprinkle on leather, [256].
• To dissolve gold, [237].
• Transfers, [264], [266].
• Transferring designs, [286].
• Translation of dates, [289].
• Trautz et Bauzonnet, [31], [32], [142].
• Tree-marbled calf, [28], [252].
• Troughs for marbling, [100].
• Turning up, [73].
• Twelvemo, [36], [37].
• Twenty-fourmo, [36].
• Tying up, [146].
• Ultramarine, [89].
• Umber, [91].
• Uncut books, [151].
• Uniform colours on leather, [256-259].
• Variegated marble, on leather, [254].
• Varnish, [277].
• Vegetable black, [91].
• Vermilion, [87].
• Violet for leather, [243].
• Vitriol-water for marbling leather, [240].
• Wainscot sprinkle on leather, [254].
• Walnut sprinkle on leather, [253].
• Walther, [28].
• Water for marbling, [96].
• Wave-marble, [118].
• Wax for marbling, [99].
• West-End marble, [107], [108].
• Whipping, [53].
• White for marbling, [86], [91].
• White-spotted edges, [80].
• Wood-lake, [88].
• Yellow for edges, [78].
  • for marbling, [85].
  • for blank-work, [165].
  • for leather, [244].

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