Matthews, Brander. Bookbinding, old and new. Macmillan, New York, 1895. $3.00. Notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club of New York.
Nicholson, James B. Manual of the art of bookbinding. Baird, Philadelphia, 1856. $1.00. Instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, finishing and marbling.
(S) Pearce, W. B. Practical bookbinding. Marshall & Co., London, no date. 25 cents. A text-book designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their own books. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Prideaux, S. T. An historical sketch of bookbinding. Lawrence. London. 1893. $1.50 net. Intended as a help in the first steps. A chronological table of French and English sovereigns is added with a bibliography and explanation of technical terms. An appendix treats of ornamentation.
Public Libraries, June, 1904. Binding number.
Public Libraries, June, 1906. Binding number.
Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding. Edited by Cobham and Wood for the Society of Arts. London. Bell. 1905. $2.80. Contains some material on dyeing leather not in the original report; has numerous illustrations, 12 samples of leather, well printed, bound in cloth.
Society of Arts—Committee on the deterioration of paper. Report … with two appendixes: 1, abstracts of paper on German official tests, 1885–96; 2, correspondence. London. 1898. 25 cents.
Zaehnsdorf, J. W. The art of bookbinding. $1.25. Bell. London. 1880. $1.25. Step by step an imaginary book is bound, as in an “extra shop,” to show the amateur how to bind his own book, or how to know a good binding when purchasing. Illustrations of machinery used are given and practical receipts.
Zahn, Otto. On art binding. S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis, 1904. $1.50. Illustrated with half-tone pictures of fine bindings by the author.