tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post889875415542818103..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Book Teardownamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-39108890483853397652017-02-01T10:01:29.166-08:002017-02-01T10:01:29.166-08:00"Gathering" is another word for the same..."Gathering" is another word for the same thing you'll come across in the literature.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-14387228273330124582017-02-01T08:23:26.483-08:002017-02-01T08:23:26.483-08:00Headbands are sometimes sewn even now! It is an in...Headbands are sometimes sewn even now! It is an infernally complicated process which I have not really mastered. Mine are always kind of lumpy.<br /><br />I have a reference from The Anciente Dayes which roughly describes the process, in that marvelously useless style of the olden days. "Takke ye three swashes thro the underbeath and repeate untille yew are finished and finally binde ye the sewwing in the usual wayye" (exaggerated for effect, but you get the idea).<br /><br />It certainly makes perfectly good sense to perfect bind the block inside a hard case. I've put paperbacks into hard cases, at least once, and it works out fine. The spine-to-spine gluing was quite definite, but it *could* have been a manufacturing error. If the block was cased up before the binding glue was cured, this might be the effect? Or perhaps some layers of paper were missing (I forget the word, but there's some sort of packing of papers between the case and the block, along the spine, that often appears).<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-29474082464006663962017-02-01T08:17:31.073-08:002017-02-01T08:17:31.073-08:00If it is a UK/US thing, I sure don't know abou...If it is a UK/US thing, I sure don't know about it! The world of bookbinding seems to have a wide and redundant vocabulary in which words can mean practically anything.<br /><br />As far as I can tell, both quire and signature can mean one of several different things, and they overlap on the "pamplet of folded stuff that is the singular unit of things you sew together" meaning. I have no idea why I settled on "quire" for my personal usage, possibly I just like the word?<br /><br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-26361246039993418402017-02-01T03:18:07.961-08:002017-02-01T03:18:07.961-08:00btw the sewn sections of a modern book are general...btw the sewn sections of a modern book are generally referred to as "signatures", rather than "quires", though I suppose this may be a US/UK thing?<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-68611180598094211312017-02-01T03:14:33.812-08:002017-02-01T03:14:33.812-08:00Hardbacked "perfect" bound books are ent...Hardbacked "perfect" bound books are entirely normal in the UK, and have been for decades, though there is normally no glueing of the book-block to the spine. "Perfect" is an old trade name for the flexible glueing process, not a qualitative judgement! I wrote a letter to the TLS in 1979 complaining that the new edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary was perfect bound, and the OUP were concerned enough to reply and invite me to inspect their processes!<br /><br />AFAIK headbands have always been a decorative detail applied with glue to the book-block, and never integrally sewn.<br /><br />I was taught "historical bibliography" by Nicolas Barker of the British Library, whose party-piece was producing an 18th century book and ripping it up, to show the binding process; no Xacto knife required!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-52134948292710384082017-01-31T15:02:17.695-08:002017-01-31T15:02:17.695-08:00that was cool! I am looking forward to seeing the ...that was cool! I am looking forward to seeing the various comparative dissections as described.stone sealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08285111419079958362noreply@blogger.com