Resources for Bookbinding

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Here’s a big list of resources. If anyone has further suggestions please send me a message and I can add it to the list (and enhance my own knowledge!)

EDIT: This list is greatly expanded and moved here  : Bookbinding Resources Master List
 

Bibliography

How to Make a Book

ArmoredSuperHeavy - Self-Published - 2019

This is document is still in development but you can read the entire thing for free. This is a service I am offering to fandom and part of the fandom gift culture.

 

Physical book construction

 

Introduction To Bookbinding & Custom Cases: a Project Approach For Learning Traditional Methods

Tom Hollander-Cindy Hollander - Schiffer Publishing - 2019

ISBN 9780764357350

 

Bookbinding & Conservation By Hand

Laura S. Young - Oak Knoll Press - 1995

ISBN 1884718116

 

Fonts, Typography, & Layout

 

Better Type: Learn to see subtle distinctions in the faces and the spaces of text type. Achieve legible, beautiful, and expressive type every time.

Betty Binns - Watson Guptill - 1989

ISBN 0823004848

 

The Complete Guide to Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type

James Felici - Adobe Press - 2003

ISBN 9780321127303

 

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Simon Garfield - Gotham Books - 2010

ISBN 9781592406524

 

Contemporary Book Design

 

Bookmaking: Design/Edit/Production

Marshall Lee - W. W. Norton & Company - 2004

ISBN 0393732967

 

Notes on Book Design

Derek Birdsall - Yale University Press - 2004

ISBN 0300103476

 

Historical Book Design

 

The Book: The Story of Printing and Bookmaking

Douglas C. McMurtie - Dorset Press - 1943

ISBN 0880293489

 

Modern Book Design: From William Morris to the Present Day

Ruari McLean - Essential Books - 1959

(no ISBN)

 

Book Typography 1815-1965 in Europe and the United STates of America

ed. Kenneth Day - University of Chicago Press - 1965

(no ISBN)

 

Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing

Ruari McLean - Faber & Faber - 1963

(no ISBN)

 

Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955: Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Cecnturies from the Collections of the Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York

Joseph Blumenthal - Pierpoint Morgan Library - 1973

(no ISBN)

 

Illustrierte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst: mit Besonderer Beruecksichtigung Ihrer Technischen Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart

Karl Faulman - A. Hartlebens Verlag - 1882

 

Supplies

Talas Online

Talasonline.com - huge selection of archival, library, bookbinding, includes heavy equipment and things like real vellum.

 

Hollander’s

Hollanders.com - Everything you need. Best selection of decorative paper; also different bookcloths, offers Davy board custom cutting service which is worth it

 

Etsy

Etsy.com - search Bookbinding Supply, you can get deals on things, also decorative papers.

 

Blick Art Supply

DickBlick.com - Stocks some essentials; if you have a brick and mortar near you it’s great for emergencies like if you run out of glue in the middle of winter.

Panduro Hobby (https://panduro.com) has glue and decorative papers, they're a chain (with physical locations) delivering to parts of Scandinavia+parts of Germany.

 

Affordable Binding Equipment by Jim Poelstra

https://affordablebindingequipment.com/

His “simple sewing frame” and “simple book press” are very similar to my homemade ones. They do the job. 

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