78 Rare Old Books on Bookbinding and Restoration Leatherwork Tools Techniques Finishing Manuscripts Repair Sewing - Instant PDF Download

THE VINTAGE BOOKBINDING COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 78 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library and covering all aspects of the ancient art of BOOKBINDING.

Some of these books are extremely rare and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an interest in manuscripts, ancient books, book repair, bindings and much more. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This wonderful collection of78 rare books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations / photos for the reader. This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.


The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A collection of excessively rare books, letters and illuminated manuscripts (1909)
A guide to the exhibition in the King's Library illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding by The British Museum (1901)
A guide to the manuscripts, autographs, charters, seals, illuminations and bindings exhibited in the Department of manuscripts and in the Grenville library. With twenty plates (1899)
A history of the art of bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients by W. Brassington (1894)
A note on bookbinding by D. Cockerell (1904)
A short historical sketch of the art of bookbinding by W. Andrews (1895)
A short history of bookbinding and a glossary of styles and terms used in binding by J. Zaehnsdorf (1895)
An essay on bookbinding as an art with some suggestions to collectors on the care of books by A. L. Bancroft (1886)
An historical sketch of bookbinding by S. Prideaux (1893)
Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (pertaining to the art of binding books.--Dibdin) (1910)
Binding for libraries (1915)
Book of type specimens (1907)
Bookbinders and their craft by S. Prideaux (1903)
Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches - Volume 1 by J. Pleger (1914)
Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches - volume 3 by J. Pleger (1914)
Bookbinding as a handwork subject by J. Halliday (1915)
Bookbinding for amateurs by W. Crane (1885)
Bookbinding for bibliophiles by F. Battershall (1905)
Bookbinding in France by W. Fletcher (1894)
Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians by D. Cockerell (1901)
Bookbinding, with numerous engravings and diagrams by P. Hasluck (1907)
Bookbindings, old and new; notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club, New York by B. Matthews (1896)
Catalogue of an exhibition of nineteenth century bookbindings (1898)
Catalogue of beautiful books richly bound offered for sale by George D. Smith, New York (1918)
Catalogue of the magnificent private library of the late Amor L. Hollingsworth of Milton, Mass. many in sumptuous bindings by the finest binders in the world (1910)
Commercial bookbinding; a description of the processes and the various machines used by G. Stephen (1910)
Cowie's bookbinder's manual by G. Cowie (1852)
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects by W. Andrews (1902)
Early Oxford bindings by S. Gibson (1903)
Examples of bookbinding executed by Robt. Rivière & Son (1920)
Exhibition of silver, embroidered, and curious bookbinding by Grolier Club (1903)
Folious appearances - A consideration on our ways of lettering books by J. Tupling (1854)
Historic bindings in the Bodleian library, Oxford; with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings by W. Brassington (1891)
La reliure de luxe, Le livre et l'amateur by L. Derôme (1888)
La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 1 by H. Beraldi (1895)
La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 2 by H. Beraldi (1895)
La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 3 by H. Beraldi (1895)
La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 4 by H. Beraldi (1895)
L'art dans la décoration extérieure des livres, en France et a l'étranger les couvertures illustrées, les cartonnages d'éditeurs; la reliure d'art by O. Uzanne (1898)
L'art de la reliure en France aux derniers siècles by E. Fournier (1864)
Leather for libraries by E. Hulme (1905)
Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)
Library binding manual by L. Feipel (1951)
Library bookbinding by A. Bailey (1916)
List of manuscripts, printed books and examples of bookbinding exhibited to the American librarians on the occasion of their visit to Haigh Hall (1897)
Manual of library bookbinding practical and historical by H. Coutts (1911)
Manuel historique et bibliographique de l'amateur de reliures by L. Gruel (1887)
Modern bookbinding practically considered by W. Matthews (1889)
Modern book-bindings & their designers by E. Wood (1900)
Modern bookbindings, their design and decoration by S. Prideaux (1906)
New books for old by M. Wheelock (1916)
Notes on bookbinding for libraries by J. Dana (1910)
Nouveau manuel complet du relieur by L. Lenormand (1853)
One hundred and eighty-eight manuscripts, bindings, books, and autograph letters including the magnificent Calvillo Pontifical written and illuminated in Spain (1365-1370) (1922)
Partial bibliography of bookbinding by M. Bridgman (1901)
Practical bookbinding by P. Adam (1903)
Practical bookbinding by W. Pearce (1908)
Printing and bookbinding for schools by S. Vaughn (1914)
Printing and writing materials their evolution by A. Smith (1912)
Remarkable bindings in the British Museum, selected for their beauty or historic interest by H. Wheatley (1889)
Report of the Committee on leather for bookbinding by The Royal Society of Arts - Great Britain (1905)
Royal English book bindings by C. Davenport (1896)
The Art of Bookbinding by H. P. du Bois (1883)
The art of bookbinding by J. Zaehnsdorf (1880)
The art of the book; a review of some recent European and American work in typography, page decoration & binding by C. Holme (1914)
The binding of books - an essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings by H. Horne (1894)
The book collector by W. Hazlitt (1904)
The book its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time by H. Bouchot (1890)
The book, its history and development by C. Davenport (1907)
The catalogue of books from the libraries or collections of celebrated bibliophiles and illustrious persons of the past, with arms or devices upon the bindings (1895)
The colonial printer by L. Wroth (1938)
The earliest Cambridge stationers & bookbinders, and the first Cambridge printer by G. Gray (1904)
The hand-book of taste in book-binding by E. Churton (1800)
The printed book by H. Aldis (1916)
The printers' handbook of trade recipes, hints & suggestions relating to letterpress and lithographic printing, bookbinding stationery, engraving, etc. by C. Jacobi (1891)
The private library by A. Humphreys (1897)
The Spencer Collection of modern book bindings (1914)
Women in the bookbinding trade by M. Van Kleeck (1913)
Works on bookbinding, practical and historical (1903)


A must for anyone with an interest in bookbinding & book finishing– an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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