LEATHER BOOKS, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK.
- (Joppe, Netherlands: K. Frigge, 1997).
- tall large 8vo.
- sewn, stiff paper wrappers.
- 3-90, (2) pages.
- ISBN: 9080303054
Price: $215.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 53163
Limited to 415 copies, of which this is one of 370 bound thus. Some wear at the bottom of the spine along the front hinge, else a fine copy. In this illustrated handbook expert bookbinder Karli Frigge explains two methods of binding in leather based on sewing the gatherings onto leather thongs, which are in turn drawn through boards. With 75 drawings; "intended for advanced bookbinders." Some of the processes illustrated (making a headcap, backing a spine, making a hollow, sewing, gluing) are more widely applicable in binding.
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