ct sound methods of binding books.

It is intended to supplement and not to supplant workshop training for
bookbinders. No one can become a skilled workman by reading
text-books, but to a man who has acquired skill and practical
experience, a text-book, giving perhaps different methods from those
to which he has been accustomed, may be helpful.

My thanks are due to many friends, including the workmen in my
workshop, for useful suggestions and other help, and to the Society of
Arts for permission to quote from the report of their Special
Committee on leather for bookbinding.

I should also like to express my indebtedness to my master, Mr. T. J.
Cobden-Sanderson, for it was in his workshop that I learned my craft,
and anything that may be of value in this book is due to his
influence.

D. C.

_November_ 1901.

CONTENTS

PART I

_BINDING_

PAGE

Editor's Preface 7

Author's Note 11

CHAPTER I

Introduction 17

CHAPTER II

Entering--Books in Sheets--Folding--Collating--Pulling
to Pieces--Refolding--Knocking out Joints 33

CHAPTER III

Guarding--Throwing Out--Paring Paper--Soaking off India
Proofs--Mounting very Thin Paper--Splitting
Paper--Inlaying--Flattening Vellum 53

CHAPTER IV

Sizing--Washing--Mending 67

CHAPTER V

End Papers--Leather Joints--Pressing 80

CHAPTER VI

Trimming Edges before Sewing--Edge Gilding 92

CHAPTER VII

Marking up--Sewing--Materials for Sewing 98

CHAPTER VIII

Fraying out Slips--Glueing up--Rounding and Backing 114

CHAPTER IX

Cutting and Attaching Boards--Cleaning off Back--Pressing 1