Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS
- II DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS
- III DEPARTMENTS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS
- IV DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- V DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- VI DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- VII DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- TABLE
- BOOKBINDING CONSIDERED AS A FINE ART, MECHANICAL ART, AND MANUFACTURE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING
- BINDING AS A FINE ART
- BINDING AS A MECHANICAL ART
- BINDING AS A MANUFACTURE
- PRACTICAL POINTS CONNECTED WITH BINDING
- APPENDIX
- DISCUSSION
- CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS OF BINDING LENT FOR EXHIBITION
- LIST OF ENGRAVINGS
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PRACTICAL POINTS CONNECTED WITH BINDING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS
- II DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS
- III DEPARTMENTS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS
- IV DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- V DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- VI DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- VII DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS
- TABLE
- BOOKBINDING CONSIDERED AS A FINE ART, MECHANICAL ART, AND MANUFACTURE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING
- BINDING AS A FINE ART
- BINDING AS A MECHANICAL ART
- BINDING AS A MANUFACTURE
- PRACTICAL POINTS CONNECTED WITH BINDING
- APPENDIX
- DISCUSSION
- CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS OF BINDING LENT FOR EXHIBITION
- LIST OF ENGRAVINGS
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
Summary
I have now finished my observations on the history and the art of Bookbinding; but I do not like to break off without making a few remarks on some practical questions connected with the subject, which are of especial interest to the librarian. These, I suppose, I may put in some such form as this—1. What shall I bind? 2. How shall I bind? and 3. How shall I preserve what I have bound?
The first question need not detain us long, although it is one of considerable interest to the librarian, who has but limited funds at his disposal. Theoretically, everything worth keeping is worth binding, but the cost is often too great to allow the theory to be carried into practice. Many books are destroyed which might be preserved if the owners knew where to get them cheaply covered. Newspapers again would be very valuable if preserved in more libraries, but the cost of binding is excessive, owing to their great size Some suggestions on the best mode of filing and preserving newspapers were thrown out by Mr. C. P. Russell, in a paper read before the Library Association (Report, 1878, p. 97).
2. “How to bind” is a question that covers a large number of different points. One of these is the treatment of pamphlets. The old plan was to bind as many as possible together, but the inconvenience of this is apparent; and in libraries, such as the British Museum, where funds are abundant, it is now the practice to bind each tract separately.
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- Remarkable Bindings in the British MuseumSelected for their Beauty or Historic Interest, pp. 167 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010