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James B. Nicholson. A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding
A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
MANUAL. OF THE. ART OF BOOKBINDING
PART I
PART II
COLOURS
MARBLING
No. 1.—large brown french or shell, with three veins, viz.: red, yellow, and black
No. 2.—small brown french
No. 3.—brown french, with light spot
No. 4.—small yellow shell
No. 5.—brown and purple shell
No. 6.—blue stormont
No. 7.—light italian
NO. 8.—small green italian
No. 9.—west end, (brown, with light spot.)
No. 10.—west end, (green, with light spot.)
No. 11.—curl
No. 12.—brown curl
NO. 13.—red curl
SPANISH
No. 14.—olive, or light green, spanish
No. 15.—blue or slate spanish
No. 16.—brown spanish
No. 17.—double brown spanish
No. 18.—fancy spanish
No. 19.—fancy spanish
No. 20.—drag or extra spanish
No. 21.—nonpareil or comb
No. 22.—raked nonpareil
No. 23.—nonpareil, (reversed.)
No. 24.—antique
No. 25.—antique, (zebra.)
No. 26.—wave
No. 27.—british
No. 28.—dutch
No. 29.—antique dutch
HALF-BINDING
STATIONERY OR VELLUM BINDING
BOARDING
PART III
FINISHING
ILLUMINATED BINDING
BLIND TOOLING
POLISHING
CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS
PREPARATIONS OF THE COLOURS
MARBLING
TREE-MARBLES
SPRINKLES
UNIFORM COLOURS
GOLD MARBLES, LANDSCAPES, ETC
COLOURS
VARNISH,
STAMPING
TRANSLATION OF DATES
RESTORING THE BINDINGS OF OLD BOOKS
SUPPLYING IMPERFECTIONS IN OLD BOOKS
HINTS. TO BOOK-COLLECTORS
Technical Terms. USED IN. BOOKBINDING
INDEX
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James B. Nicholson
Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper
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He adopted a style peculiarly his own, uniting a classical taste in the formation of his designs, and much judgment in the selection of such ornament as was applicable to the nature of the work it was to embellish. Many of these he made himself of iron, and some are yet preserved as curiosities and specimens of the skill of the man. To this occupation he may have been at times driven from lack of money to procure them from the tool-cutters; but it cannot be set down as being generally so, for, in the formation of the designs in which he so much excelled, it is but reasonable to suppose, arguing upon the practice of some others in later times, he found it readier and more expedient to manufacture certain lines, curves, &c. on the occasion. Be this as it may, he succeeded in executing binding in so superior a manner as to have no rival and to command the admiration of the most fastidious book-lover of his time. He had full employment from the noble and wealthy, and the estimation his bindings are still held in is a sufficient proof of the satisfaction he gave his employers. His best work is in Earl Spencer's library.
His reputation as an artist of the greatest merit was obscured, and eventually nearly lost, by his intemperate habits. He loved drink better than meat. Of this propensity an anecdote is related of a memorandum of money spent, and kept by himself, which runs thus:—
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