Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique - 2 Volume Set
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979.
Hardcover.
First Edition of this reissue of a work first published in 1946.
In this two-volume work on bookbinding, noted bookbinder Edith Diehl provides both a historical survey of bookbinding and a practical guide for practitioners of the art.
Volume One focuses on the history of bookbinding from primitive and ancient forms to books of the Middles Ages, Renaissance and modern times. Diehl discusses early methods of production and distribution of books, bookbinding practices, national styles of book decoration, and miscellanea – format, signatures, decoration of book edges, shrines, satchels, book covers and girdle book forgeries, materials, deterioration and the care of books.
In Volume Two, the author focuses on the practice of bookbinding – from the tools and equipment for the binder’s workbench, to the myriad skills required of a master bookbinder –from selection of materials to lettering design on the back of the finished book, taking the reader through every stage of book production.
Item #902800ISBN: 0878172556
6 x 9-1/4", light yellow cloth with illustration of practitioners of the historic craft on all boards, gilt titles, beige endpapers, vi, 406pp, xxi, 251pp + 91 full page plates (Volume 2), 189 text figures (Volume 1), glossary and index each volume.
Bright, clean, square, crisp corners, a very fine set lacking dust wrappers as issued.
Price: $75.00