mss0099_0906.xml Finding aid for Bookbinding notescirca 1900-1990 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
Date encoded (2011 September 22) Finding aid encoded 2011 September 22 English Bookbinding notescirca 1900-1990 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Bookbinding notescirca 1900-1990 MSS 099, F906 1 item (37 p.) This cloth-bound carbon typescript, titled Bookbinding notes, was written by an unidentified individual and bears occasional handwritten additions, deletions, and notes. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, July 2011.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F906, [Anonymous], Bookbinding notes, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary Box 62, F906: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes Processing

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, September 2011.

 Biographical Note

Bookbinding notes was written by an unidentified bookbinder or perhaps someone learning the craft.

Information derived from the collection.

Scope and Content Note

This cloth-bound carbon typescript, titled Bookbinding notes, was written by an unidentified individual and bears occasional handwritten additions, deletions, and notes.

This set of notes gives a descriptive list of the steps required to craft different types of bindings, including case books, library bindings, flexible bindings, hollow back style, and pamphlet style. In each of these sections there are detailed instructions for binding a volume, beginning with collating and including pulling, marking up, sewing, endpapers, cutting, boards, rounding, backing, lining-up back, covering, and pasting down.

Following these sections, there are several pages on papermaking, including a brief history of papermaking, notes on boards, information on finishing (preparations used), and notes on leather (types and finishing). The book concludes with a section labeled "miscellaneous notes" which explains mending, overcasting, throw-out-on-guards, and sizes of printing papers.

Occasional brief handwritten additions, such as section titles added to the top of some pages are scattered throughout the book. There are also brief additions of information, the addition of another step in a process, a small drawing, or referrals to other sections in the notes. Some deletions were made, including one subsection on binding case books where some of the steps are crossed out.

 Selected Search Terms Topical Terms Bookbinding--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--20th century. Papermaking--History--20th century. Form/Genre Terms Notes. Occupation Bookbinders. Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

 Detailed Contents List 62 F906 Bookbinding notescirca 1900-1990