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 1916 National Geographic Magazine Bound Book Lot of 2 Olive Green Gilt lettering $49.99 Time Remaining: 28d 17h 26m Buy It Now for only: $49.99 |
 Early American Leather Bound O Henry Book Set 1918 1919 DoubleDay Novels $22.73 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 31m |
 INVESTMENT 50 Book Antique Leather Premium Bound Library Lot+LIMITED EDITIONS $177.50 (14 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 23h 40m |
 EUC Franklin Library Leather Bound Book Herman Melville Moby Dick Limited Editio $6.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1h 44m |
 1913 2 Vol Book Set of Les Miserables Leather Bound $45.00 Time Remaining: 29d 19h Buy It Now for only: $45.00 |
 1726 Early Leather Bound Book Sermons Preached Benjamin Calamy Almost 300 years $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 23h 35m |
 1811 ANTIQUE LEATHER BOUND HOLY BIBLE Book MATTHEW CAREY Philadelphia LARGE $10.99 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 25m |
 Antique Leather Bound Book of the Poets dated 1842 London with Many Engravings $20.50 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 25m |
 Antique Leather Bound Book The Worlds of Francois Rabelais Gargantua Pantagruel $20.15 Time Remaining: 10d 17h 56m Buy It Now for only: $20.15 |
 History of Imaginary Spinning Tops MINIATURE BOOK leather bound Bantock rare $54.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 20m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 Antique Brass Bound Pocket Size Leather Church Services Book $1.57 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 17h 42m |
 Our Fathers House Ornate Leather Bound Christian Classic 1871 What a Book $74.99 Time Remaining: 13d 1h 27m Buy It Now for only: $74.99 |
 Beautiful 1877 History of English Literature 4 vol Bound Green Leather Book Set $95.50 (9 Bids) Time Remaining: 22h 52m |
 Antique 1813 Leather Bound Book Horace in London Consisting The Odes of Horace $23.70 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 7h 20m |
 Antique 1891 Hard Bound DrChases Information for Everybody Recipes Book Disease $9.95 Time Remaining: 1d 23h 40m |
 246 YEAR OLD VELLUM BOUND BOOK THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT 1766 $49.00 Time Remaining: 7d 18h 45m Buy It Now for only: $49.00 |
 Cicero Nature of the Gods 1867 Fine Bound Leather Book Classical Library NR $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 23h 14m |
 1841 Leather Bound German Book Jesus Christ New Haven $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 14m Buy It Now for only: $24.99 |
 1912 The National Geographic Magazine Bound Book Lot of 2 Volumes $39.99 Time Remaining: 11d 8h 23m Buy It Now for only: $39.99 |
 INCREDIBLE MINIATURE ANTIQUE LEATHER BOUND EMBOSSED BOOK A57 $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 39m |
 ANTIQUARIAN ANTIQUE 1795 LEATHER BOUND DUBLIN IRELAND BOOK THE SEASONS THOMSON $20.50 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 23h 31m |
 1907 Russian Book 8 ISSUES VESTNIK RUSSKOY KONNITZY BOUND 1 8 POLK ZHURNAL $15.05 (5 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 12h 52m |
 Plain Truth 1823 24 Rare Antique Bound Religious Periodical Canandaigua Book $125.00 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 16m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 Snow Bound by John G Whittier 1914 printing Old book $10.00 Time Remaining: 1h 40m |
 LOVELY ANTIQUE LEATHER BOUND MINIATURE BOOK CRAFT MASONRY 1920 MASONS LODGE $15.80 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 17h 57m |
 BaratariaFrederick PilonDublin 1785RARE copy of FarceBound in book 14 Farces $388.00 Time Remaining: 29d 22h 38m Buy It Now for only: $388.00 |
 Ford Trucks Since 1905 Hard Bound Book by James K Wagner c Crestline 1978 $9.99 Time Remaining: 17h 59m Buy It Now for only: $49.00 |
 Lonsdale Library Vintage Leather Bound Book Game Deer Shooting Wildfowling +More $26.87 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 18h 14m |
 Antique 1782 Leather Bound Book The Beauties of Goldsmith Olde English $44.28 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 17h 25m |
 Leather Bound Books ID Guide Antique Care Preservation $22.45 Time Remaining: 2d 2h 41m Buy It Now for only: $22.45 |
 ANTIQUE LEATHER PREMIUM BOUND BOOKS RARE LIBRARY COLLECTION CLASSIC SET $96.55 (7 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 20h 47m |
 A TREASURY OF TRUE Vintage Collectible 1956 Leather Bound Hard Cover Book $39.99 Time Remaining: 2h 46m |
 LOT OF 15 Easton Press Leather Bound from the 100 Greatest Books Series RARE $153.50 (13 Bids) Time Remaining: 14h 27m |
 Leather Bound BOOK 4 by Aleister Crowley AA Occult Grimoire Ceremonial Magick $177.70 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 42m Buy It Now for only: $177.70 |
 LOVELY LITTLE ANTIQUE LEATHER BOUND MINIATURE BOOK BIBLE PRAYER BOOK C1900 $15.80 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 18h 10m |
 Alenandre Dumas Leather Bound Book Collection 9 books 1894 1903 $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 1h 52m |
 JUNE NOV 1855 HARPERS MONTHLY MAG BOUND BOOK HISTORY $20.00 Time Remaining: 14d 19h 26m Buy It Now for only: $20.00 |
 Easton Press Chaucers The Canterbury Tales Leather bound Book No Reserve $9.50 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 20h 58m |
 Godeys Ladys Book 1865 Color Fashion Plates bound for Eliza A Boon Civil War $46.99 Time Remaining: 2d 2h 30m |
 Leather Bound Easton Press Book American Scoundrel Keneally Signed New $15.50 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 13h 16m |
 HALLBERGERS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE BOUND ANTIQUE OLD BOOKS 1875 1876 1877 1878 $55.00 Time Remaining: 5d 23h 48m Buy It Now for only: $55.00 |
 1830 Alexander Popes Poetical Works Leather Bound Book Early American Printing $19.99 Time Remaining: 2d 18h 37m |
 ANTIQUE LEATHER PREMIUM BOUND BOOKS RARE LIBRARY COLLECTION CLASSIC SET $63.00 (8 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 21h 15m |
 Collection of 27 English Sermons 1705 1715 Leather Bound Antique Book $295.00 Time Remaining: 28d 17h 28m Buy It Now for only: $295.00 |
 12 Leather Bound Law Books published in the late 1800s $31.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 14h 39m |
 Leather Bound Book 1835 classic Gillies Greece $9.00 Time Remaining: 1d 15h 56m |
 1929 antique LEATHER BOUND COMMENCEMENT BOOK UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH pa $84.95 Time Remaining: 20h 39m |
 American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype S D Humphrey 1858 Hard Bound Leather $950.00 Time Remaining: 29d 15h 18m Buy It Now for only: $950.00 |
 Adorable Antique Miniature Leather Bound Little Webster 18000 Words Tiny Book $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 11h 54m |
 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOK LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS $19.95 Time Remaining: 3d 18h 2m |
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 Madonna Sex Book Metal bound 1992 spiral bound meta $75.00 Time Remaining: 18h |
 1778 Gutheries Orations of Cicero Volume I Fine Leather Bound Book No Reserve $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 20h 7m |
 1875 Rare Antique Book Guernsey Magazine Bound 12 issues Lost ships History illu $6.50 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 22h 40m |
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 VINTAGE LEATHER BOUND Souvenir Book STRATFORD ON AVON $1.57 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 16h 35m |
 1912 15 Russian Book ALBUM SOLNTZA ROSSII BOUND VARIOUS ART DRAMA BALET MILITARY $99.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 14h 42m |
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 Miniature Leather Bound Cased Book Lilliput English German Dictionary $3.48 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 Bound Volume Godeys Ladys Book Fashion Prints Edgar Allan Poe $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 5d 12h 57m |
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 ANTIQUE LEATHER PREMIUM BOUND BOOKS RARE LIBRARY COLLECTION CLASSIC SET $102.50 (8 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 1h 20m |
 Antique 1754 Leather Bound German Book Johann Friedrich Beitenkampf Troftgrunde $64.99 Time Remaining: 13h 48m |
 Vintage 1878 Harpers Bazaar Bound Book All Weekly July December Fashion $11.49 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 5d 2h 32m |
 1914 The National Geographic Magazine Blue Bound Book Lot of 2 No 25 26 $49.99 Time Remaining: 6d 20h 46m Buy It Now for only: $49.99 |
 2 UNIQUE Antique Mechanical Engineer Notebook Books Leather Bound $19.99 Time Remaining: 13h 54m |
 Antique Leather Bound LAWS of BOLIVIA book set RARE $399.99 Time Remaining: 2d 22h 38m Buy It Now for only: $499.99 |
 1924 The National Geographic Magazine Bound Book Lot of 2 Volumes $39.99 Time Remaining: 12d Buy It Now for only: $39.99 |
 GODEYS LADYS BOOK JULY TO DECEMBER 1855 BOUND $45.00 Time Remaining: 5d 21h 4m |
 Vintage 1873 The Aldine Art Journal Year Bound Book Volume 6 Full Year $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 5d 2h 12m |
 Leather Bound Book The Works of Victor Hugo 1928 $9.00 Time Remaining: 1d 15h 56m |
 Vintage Limited Edition The Living World of Audubon Animals Leather Bound Book $79.99 Time Remaining: 29d 22h 52m Buy It Now for only: $79.99 |
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 Antique The Strand Magazine Vol XIX Feb July 1900 Bound Book Arthur Conan Doyle $65.00 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 33m |
 1844 MINIATURE BOOK LOSS OF THE MARY ROSE BOUND IN WOOD SALVAGED FROM THE SHIP $616.71 (12 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 18h 32m |
 Leather Bound Book Franklin Library All The Kings Men Robert Penn Warren $23.99 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 49m |
 Glory Bound Song Book $12.99 Time Remaining: 20h 24m Buy It Now for only: $12.99 |
 Antique ATLANTIC MONTHLY LVII 57 1886 Leather Book Magazine Bound Ed $30.00 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 4m |
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 Book of Common Prayer Leather Bound 1864 $50.00 Time Remaining: 25d 15h 40m Buy It Now for only: $50.00 |
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 Works of Thomas Sydenham MD Gryphon Medical Classic Leather Bound Book $24.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 58m |
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 book Artist SISLEY LEATHER BOUND The Easton Press Impressionist Art $59.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 50m |
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 Leather Bound Book Franklin Library Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor $23.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 46m |
 Vintage ENGINEERS 1928 Neo Techni Research Corp Leather Bound Book $19.99 Time Remaining: 8d 21h 29m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
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Bookbinding - I Am The Decoration Of A Well Bound Book
The craft of bookbinding originated in India, where sutras were copied on to palm leaves with a metal stylus. After the leaf dried it was rubbed with ink, this caused a stain in the excised area. The leaves were then given numbers, and two long threads were passed through each end of the wooden boards which were often decorated. Buddhist monks took the idea through Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iran, and finally to China in the 1st century BC.
Coptic bindings, the first true codices, were used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century. They display some of the earliest examples of book decoration, if one were to include the scroll, that history would extend back much further.
It seems man has an innate desire to decorate. His tools, cooking implements, clothing, and indeed all manner of things, were subject to decoration.
During 12th century Europe, bookbinding and calligraphy were being practiced in monasteries, though the 12th century Winchester Domesday book has lost its original covers, still one can see exuberant examples of the calligraphers decorative art within its pages.
While illuminators we busy creating fanciful creatures in medieval manuscripts, the outside cover of the bookbinding was not being ignored.
Early books containing leaves of vellum, often had thick wooden boards with clasps or ties to keep the book flat. When paper became more common, the boards no longer needed to be made of wood, so boards made from compressed paper were used.
Early bookbinding decoration took the from of decorative designs engraved in brass or iron, and when warm, impressed into the slightly damp leather, the combination of heat and moisture caused the leather to darken in those areas, and even when dry the darkened impressions remained, thus creating both visual and textural decorative elements. This process is called "blind tooling", whereby the tool is impressed into the leather without the use of gold leaf.
The use of gold leaf as a decorative element in bookbinding emerged from 15th century Italy and continues through to this day.
The use of blind tooling and tooling in gold leaf called for a skill and appreciation of good design, when natural forms were adopted, the use of free flowing natural lines had to be employed, anything less would be patently obvious to a critical eye.
Blind tooling and tooling in gold leaf are still practiced today, by skilled bookbinders, and the rules of good design are still as important now as they were then.
Today the methods of producing a book may have changed out of all recognition from that of earlier times, but the laws that govern good design are still valid.
Fortunately from every epoch in history, there exists fine examples of the book decorators art, one only has to recall the works of Cobden Sanderson, Douglas and Sidney Cockerell and others from the arts and crafts movement of the late 19th century, through to fellows of the Society of Designer Bookbinders today, who, employing the skills of there predecessors, continue to raise the craft of bookbinding to an art form.
By Richard Norman
About the Author
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How to label the spine of a self-bound book?
I was looking at embossing, but the equipment is expensive and most vanity binders don't want to be bothered with single copies. Any thoughts?
I’m specifically looking to do just the embossing not a full binding job. I plan on binding myself. I’ll definitely check out lulu.com.
Stay away from vanity printers.
Lulu-dot-com will print one copy at a time or as many as you want.
They use Print On Demand tech, so they can do singles very easily.
You're only charged for page count, and you can upload your own cover to their specs.
Embossing is expensive, I don't think they offer it, so ditch it.
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