Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1981-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374516669
The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.
Author : A. W. Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486201694
Describes tools, basic materials, and the simple techniques and processes for cloth bookbinding in the library style
Author : Charlotte Rivers
Publisher : Potter Craft
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0770435149
Making books by hand has never been cooler, with this inspiring guide to 30 top bookmakers working today, plus 21 tutorials for essential techniques to make your own books. Crafters, artists, writers, and book lovers can't resist a beautifully handbound book. Packed with wonderfully eclectic examples, this book explores the intriguing creative possibilities of bookmaking as a modern art form, including a wide range of bindings, materials, and embellishments. Featured techniques include everything from Coptic to concertina binding, as well as experimental page treatments such as sumi-e ink marbling and wheat paste. In addition to page after page of inspiration from leading contemporary binderies, Little Book of Bookmaking includes a practical section of 21 easy-to-follow illustrated tutorials.
Author : Jen Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : 9781940965277
"A complete guide to the process of fine bookbinding, intended for both novice and experienced bookmakers. Guides the user in creating a fine binding fully covered in leather, with leather-jointed endpapers, gilt edges, and leather doublures. Includes close to 300 black-and-white illustrations, four appendices, bibliography and index"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Linda Orriss
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1847977650
Craft Bookbinding introduces some of the numerous binding styles that can be achieved with little or no experience, from simple structures that can be made with folded paper to the classic case binding. Techniques for handling paper and glue are explained in detail, along with a range of different methods of sewing and a variety of cases to be used as covers. There are various ideas for how the different binding styles can be lettered. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, clear instructions describe the bindings, which can be adapted to bind books that are uniquely yours. There is a guide to adapting or making tools, plus specialist equipment and an emphasis on best practice so the skills can be developed and used as a foundation for fine binding. Lavishly illustrated with 73 colour photographs and 17 diagrams.
Author : Roy Harley Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Pauline Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486263076
A guide to hand book-binding.
Author : Josep Cambras
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781579906467
A time-honored craft, bookbinding protects and enhances written and printed documents. Many of the diverse techniques of the improve a book's functionality and appearance are described in the these thoroughly illustrated pages.
Author : Mora Himel Lincoln
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Treverbian Prideaux
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Bookbinders
ISBN :
