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Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920
A study of individual women bookbinders of the period and the Guild of Women Bookbinders, focusing on Britain and also covering American women craft binders. Offers a historical introduction, profiles key women in the field, and examines less traditional styles of bookbinding, such as embroidery and painting on vellum, revived by women binders of the time. Appendices list tools used by particular binders, women and groups associated with the Guild, and British women in charge of bookbinder's shops, 1648-1901. Includes 32 color photos of bookbindings and some 100 bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Cowie's bookbinder's manual
Containing a full description of leather and vellum binding; directions for gilding of paper and book-edges; and numerous valuable recipes for sprinkling, colouring, & marbling; together with a scale of bookbinders' charges; a list of all the book and vellum binders in London, &c. &c Seventh and new edition.
