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Bookbinding notes
This cloth-bound carbon typescript, titled Bookbinding notes, was written by an unidentified individual and bears occasional handwritten additions, deletions, and notes.
Martha L. Carothers student artists' books collection
Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.
Thomas Coode manuscript recipe book
Thomas Coode’s nineteenth-century manuscript recipe book contains instructions for domestic and trade processes ranging from plate cleaning and preserving meat to preparing fireworks and varnishes. The volume also features notes on book-binding and glazing mezzotint prints.
John F. Grabau Selected formulas for book-binding
Selected Formulas for Book-binding is a manuscript volume of bookbinding instructions created by bookbinder John F. Grabau of Buffalo, New York, in 1906.
J. Franklin Mowery experimental case construction specimen
This single volume is a specimen of a case construction binding created by John Franklin ("Frank") Mowery, a bookbinder and former head conservator at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Notebook of handicraft instructions
This notebook contains twenty-two handwritten pages of instructions, illustrations, and samples for a making a portfolio, working with metals and leather, and constructing a scrapbook and a tape-sewn book, as well as threading a handloom.
Michael Peich paper specimens catalogs collection
Michael Peich is an emeritus professor of English at West Chester University. In 1982, he founded the Aralia Press, a fine arts press used to teach university students the art of printing. The Michael Peich paper specimens catalogs collection comprises American and worldwide paper manufacturers’ sample books sent to Peich and Aralia Press from 1977-2008, largely advertising hand- and machine-made art and printing paper.
Daniel Steele letter to Robert Moore
In this handwritten and signed letter, bookbinder Daniel Steele of Albany, New York, informed New York City bookseller Robert Moore of a shipment of ten bundles of scale board which was being sent by way of the sloop Ontario.
Frank W. Tober papermaking and paper samples collection
Frank W. Tober collected this wide variety of paper specimens and samples from around the world, including manufacturer's paper sample books, catalogs, individual paper specimens, and a portion of St. Louis collector and bookbinder Francis T. Guelker's collection on the history and craft of bookbinding and papermaking.
University of Delaware Library collection of websites related to printing and book arts
This collection broadly documents online sources related to book arts and printing which complement and enrich existing special collections, including websites and social media sites of and for individuals and organizations involved in all aspects of the book arts and printing. This collection focuses on collecting web resources related to designers, presses, and printers.
University of Georgia Press collection
This collection of items from University of Georgia Press, the oldest and largest publication house in the state, consists of trade materials published between 1934 and 1999 that were used by the press at its publication office.
Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection
The Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection consists of the records of the Plough Press and the works and research materials of the Plough Press's founder, English printer and author Geoffrey Wakeman. The Plough Press's publications, reprints, and original works by Wakeman and others pertain to print culture, particularly printers and printing, illustration processes, binding, and paper.
Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop : galley proofs
This item comprises the original galley proofs for Richard J. Wolfe’s and Paul McKenna’s book, Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop, as published by Bird & Bull Press in 1985.