Includes biographical note on the author. Includes index.
Contents:
Confessions -- A bookbinder's perspective, or how I got here -- Assimilating old ideas -- Fine weather for bookbinding -- Medicine cabinet/Tool chest -- Coming unglued -- Paper unglued -- Paper first -- Attachments, directions, and warp -- Zigzag endpapers -- Smoother shoulders -- Backbone -- Paring essentials -- Headband tips -- Headcaps and patches -- Speaking of corners -- Joint repair, a simple solution -- Cloth casings: The wrong method in the right place -- Better rebacking -- A word about paper bindings -- Patterns -- Breaking the gilding rules -- Gold tooling chart -- How to cheat at gold tooling -- For the love of Samuel Johnson -- Out of order -- The formidable family Bible -- Running out of ideas.
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