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Bibliopegia, Or, the Art of Bookbinding in All Its Branches, by John Andrews Arnett. by J. Hannett
Bibliopegia Or the Art of Bookbinding in All Its Branches by John Andrews Arnett by J Hannett Author:John Hannett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. INTRODUCTION. BINDING is the art of folding the sheets of a book securing them together, affixing boards or sides thereto, and covering the whole with leather or other materials. There are various Styles of binding, as half-binding, where the backs and corners only are covered with leather, and the sides or boards with marbled or coloured paper. Law binding, which is generally confined to law books, the leather being left its natural colour, and the edges of the leaves plain. Dutch binding is where the backs are of vellum or parchment. In boards signifies that the book is slightly done up, and covered with paper or cloth. The styles of binding for the various classes of literature are denominated by the titles of filletted, lettered, gilt, half-extra, extra, super extra, according to the quantity and style of work employed: thus we say calf, morocco, or russia extra,« less