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English Embroidered Bookbindings, by
Cyril James Humphries Davenport, from
Project Gutenberg British Library Database of
Bookbindings Archived 26 February...
- In
bookbinding,
swell refers to the
increased thickness of a
textblock along its
spine edge
after sewing.
Swell is a
function of the
number of sections...
- In
bookbinding, a section, gathering, or
signature is a
group of
sheets folded in half, to be
worked into the
binding as a unit. The
section is the basic...
- term
doublure is of
French origin.
Tooled doublures are
found in
French bookbinding of the
seventeenth century: in particular, they are ****ociated with the...
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Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also
called stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang), is the
method of
bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, ****anese...
- services,
rather than
study in the library. The vast
majority of
these bookbindings were
later destro**** as
their valuable gold and
jewels were
removed by...
- In
bookbinding,
finishing refers to the
process of
decorating the
outside of a book,
including the
lettering of the
spine and covers, any
additional tooling...
- The
Wikibook Bookbinding has a page on the
topic of: Long
stitch In the art of
bookbinding, the
longstitch technique is used for
binding the sections...
- In
bookbinding,
inlays and
onlays are
pieces of
leather adhered to the
cover of a book,
usually differing in color, grain, or both from the main covering...
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printed or
manual illustrations. The
colorant is
particularly prevalent in
bookbindings from the 1850s and 1860s
published in Germany, England, France, and the...
