INDEX

Acid-free leather,58, 90

Acids used in dyeing, effects,57

Adhesives,167

Advertisements, when to bind,135

Age of animals, effect on leather,53

Aldine vellum,76

A. L. A. Committee on Binding,11

A. L. A. Specifications for reinforced books,109

American russia,65

Ammonia,171

Angora goatskin,69

Arrangement for binding,132

Art canvas,76

Art vellum,76

Artistic binding,7

Back-lining,34

Backing,33

Backs, loose, mending,181

Backs, tight, mending,181

Backs, tight and loose,44

Bands,19

Bands, frayed,32

Bands, number necessary,18, 91

Bands, raised,40

Barbour's thread,85

Bench sewing,19

Bibliography of binding,221

Bids for binding,11

Binder, instructions for,139

Binders' boards,83

Binders for magazines,199

Binders ignorant of library binding,9

Bindery in the library,209

Bindery, equipment,213

Binding before purchase,103

Binding records,149

Binding routine,157

Binding slip, use of,139, 140

Boards,83

Boards, cut,36

Bock,70

Bone folders,172

Bookbinding terms,225

Books, discarding of,131

Books, opening of,122

Books, proper care,122

Booksellers, oppose reinforced books,112

Brownie books, strong binding,113

Brushes,173

Buckram,76

Buffing,66

Bureau of Standards, Specifications for cloth,217

Bureau of Standards, tests of cloth,78

Burnishing,32

Calfskin,70

Calfskin vs. cowhide,53

Call number, location of,143

Call numbers gilded,39

Canton flannel for lining,35

Canvas,80

Care of books,122

Case, making of,36

Cased books,38

Catechol group,56

Cheesecloth,170

Chivers, Cedric, binding from sheets,103

Chivers, tests of leather,60

Chivers, test of levant morocco,69

Classic buckram,76

Cleaning cover,177

Cleaning pages,174

Climate, effect on leather,54

Cloth,72

Cloth boards,83

Cloth, cutting of,36

Cloth for sides,89

Cloth, government specifications,79, 217

Cloth, grades of,75

Cloth guards,90

Cloth, manufacturers of,74

Cloth, qualities of,74

Cloth, tests of,78

Cloth used in mending,170

Cloth vs. leather,122

Collation,15, 133

Commercial binding,6

Commercial binding, specifications,100

Copying press,173

Corners of vellum,72

Corners rounded,47

Cost of binding,5, 11, 115

Cost of binding, records of,152

Cost of binding, suggestions for reducing,104, 119

Cotton vs. linen thread,85

Covers, how cleaned,177

Covers of periodicals, when to bind,135

Cowhide,65

Cowhide for fiction and juvenile,93

Creases, how removed,175

Creasing for flexibility,25

Crepeline,170, 179

Crushed levant,69

Cutting board,174

Dampness, effect on leather,59

Decay of leather,54

Discarding books,121, 131

Duck,80, 90

Duck for newspapers,97

Dummy backs,141

Durabline,81

Embossing leather,57

End papers,19

End papers and fly leaves pasted together,31

End papers pasted down,37

End papers, quality,85

English buckram,77

Everyman's library, library edition,112, 129

Eyelet and tape binders,201

Fabrikoid,81, 82

Fibre-filling preservative,97

Fiction, specifications,93

Finishing,39

Flesher for back-lining,35

Flexible glue,82

Flexible sewing,40

Fly leaves and end papers pasted together,31

Fly leaves guarded,17

Fly leaves tipped on,17

Fly leaves, renewal,183

Folded plates, guarded,90

Folders, bone,172

Forwarding,31

Fox marks, how removed,175

French joints,37, 46, 91

Gall nuts for tanning,55

Gas, effect on leather,58

Gaylord binders,206

Gilding,39

Gilding tops,33

Glaire,195

Glue,82, 169

Glue, flexible,82

Glue pot,173

Glue, removed from back of books,15

Gluing,33

Gluing for overcasting,17

Goatskins,68

Gold leaf,85

Government cloth,77

Government cloth, specifications,217

Government documents, binding of,54, 77

Government documents, materials used in binding,51

Graining leather,57

Grease in leather,58

Grease spots, how removed,177

Guarding fly leaves,17

Guarding illustrations,18

Guarding signatures,17

Hair sheep,64

Hayes' thread,85

Headbands,49

Heat, effect on leather,59

Hemlock bark,56

Home binderies,209

Huntting, H. R., Samson-back sewing,113

Illustrations guarded,18, 90

Illustrations mounted on cloth,91

Imitation of morocco,64, 68

Imperfect books, when to bind,133

Imperial morocco cloth,81, 90

Incomplete volumes, when to bind,138

Index, where to place,134

Index volumes, lettering of,147

Ink stains, how removed,176

Instructions to binder,139

Jaconet,17, 170

Javelle water,175

Joint authors, lettering,143

Joints,46

Juvenile books bound from sheets,105

Juvenile books, specifications,93

Keratol,81, 82

Kettlestitch,22

Kettlestitch, sawing for,18

Kettlestitch, three for overcast books,27

Knives,172

Knocking down,16

Kraft paper,171

Kraft paper for fly leaves,17

Labeling, process,191

Labels made of leather,39

Labels on tight-back books,45

Labels, removal of,193

Labor, effects on cost of binding,115

Lacing-in,38, 42

Larch, for tanning,56

Law books, specifications,98

Law sheep,65

Leather,52

Leather, causes of variation in,53

Leather corners,48

Leather, decay of,54, 73

Leather, embossed,57

Leather for back-lining,35

Leather imitation of,81

Leather kinds of,63

Leather labels,39

Leather, mechanical qualities,60

Leather, preservation of,60

Leather vs. cloth,122

Legal buckram,80

Lettering, arrangement,141

Lettering by hand,193

Lettering, how indicated,139

Lettering in white ink,193

Lettering, joint authors,143

Lettering, oversized books,147

Lettering, pamphlets,207

Lettering, periodicals,146

Lettering, pseudonyms,143

Lettering, thin volumes,147

Lettering, two books in one,143

Lettering with type,194

Levant morocco,69

Library binderies,209

Library binderies, administration,211

Library binderies, cost of,214

Library binding,8

Library buckram,80

Linen buckram,77

Linen finish cloth,76

Linen vs. cotton thread,85

Loose back,36, 44

Loose joints, how mended,182

Loose leaves, inserting,180

Loose signatures, inserting,181

Machine-bound books,6

Magazine binders,199

Making the case,36

Manila paper,171

Manila paper for fly leaves,17

Maps, repair of,183

Materials,51

Materials for lettering,195

Materials for repairing,167

Mending,16, 178

Mending by binder,90

Mending materials,167

Mending, rules for,166

Mildew, how prevented,176

Millboards,83

Morocco,68

Morocco, bock,70

Morocco, imitation of,64

Morocco, Levant,69

Morocco, Niger,70

Morocco, Persian,70

Morocco, Turkey,69

Mucilage,169

Music, specifications for,99

Newspapers, specifications,96

Newspapers, wrapped in paper,96

Niger morocco,70

Non-fiction, specifications,94

Oak bark,55, 56

Oak bark for pigskin,67

Oak bark for sheepskin,64

Onion skin,171

Overcast books, cut before sewing,16

Overcasting,23, 25

Overcasting, sawing for,19

Oversized books, lettering,147

Pages, cleaning of,174

Pages, how mended,178

Pages missing,133

Pamphlets, binding,205

Pamphlets, binding single copies,190

Pamphlets, lettering,207

Panels,142

Panels, staining of,39

Paper, effect of folding,14

Paper, effect on binding,14

Parker, J. Gordon, on causes of decay in leathers,55

Paste,83, 167

Paste, poor, effect on binding,59

Pasting down,37

Pasting machine,169, 174

Perforating machine,25

Periodicals, arrangement of,16, 134

Periodicals, binding single copies,190

Periodicals, lettering,146

Periodicals, specifications,94

Periodicals, two volumes in one,138

Periodicals, vagaries of,134

Periodicals, when to bind incomplete,138

Persian morocco,70

Plates, folded, guarding,90

Plates, unpaged, where to place,136

Preparing for the bindery,125

Press used in mending,173

Pressing,38

Pigskin,67

Pluviusin,81

Polished buckram,76

Preservation of leather,60

Prices, schedule of,118

Printing Investigation Committee,77

Processes,13

Pseudonyms, lettering,143

Publishers' binding,6

Publishers' reinforced books,109

Publishers' reinforced books, failure of,111

Pyrogallol group,55

Questions binding assistants must ask,125

Raised bands,40

Ratio of cost to circulation,5

Reading list,221

Rebacking,36

Recasing instead of rebinding,130

Recasing, process,184

Records for large libraries,153

Records of binding,149

Records of previous volumes,140, 151

Recovering,121

Recovering, process,185

Red rope manila,171

Reference books, specifications,98

Regular sewing,19

Reinforced books,108, 120

Reinforced books, specifications,109

Reinforcing, process,188

Repairing,165

Reports, binding of,138, 205

Reprints, bound before purchase,119

Reprints, use instead of rebinding,129

Resewed commercial books,113

Re-siding, process,188

Retanning,58

Rexine,81

Roan,65

Rod binders,202

Rounding,33

Routine of binding,157

Royal Society of Arts, investigation of leather,55

Rub or rub-off,92, 140

Russia leather,71

Samson-back sewing,113

Sawing,18

Scientific books, when to rebind,131

Scribner's, Charles, Sons Co., reinforced books,109

Sealskin,63, 71

Second-hand books, rebound before using,108, 120

Selection of binder,9

Semi-tar boards,84

Setting the square,36

Sewing,19

Sewing, affected by paper,14

Sewing bench,20

Sewing on tapes,30

Sewing two-on,23

Sex of animals, effect on leather,53

Shaving of skins,57

Sheep-bound set of U. S. documents,54

Sheepskin,63

Sheets, binding from,103

Shellac,172

Shellacking of covers,177

Signatures, guarding of,17-18

Size, basis for prices,89

Skiver,65

Society of Arts, investigation of leather,55

Society of Arts, on preservation of leather,62

Sound Leather Committee of the Library Association,55

Specifications,87

Specifications, books of illustrations,100

Specifications, commercial binding,100

Specifications, fiction,93

Specifications, general,88

Specifications, juvenile,93

Specifications, law books,98

Specifications, music,99

Specifications, newspapers,96

Specifications, non-fiction,94

Specifications, periodicals,94

Specifications, reference books,98

Specifications, reinforced books,109

Split boards,44

Split cowhide,66

Split sheepskins,65

Splitting of skins,57

Spring-back binders,201

Sprinkling,32

Squares,36

Stained labels,39

Stitching,91

Strawboards,83

Sulphuric acid,57, 58

Sumac,55, 56, 57

Sumac for sheepskin,64

Sunlight, effect on leather,58

Super,35

Supplements to periodicals,134

Taking apart,15

Tanning materials,55

Tapes,85

Tapes, sewing on,30

Tar boards,84

Technical books, when to rebind,131

Technical terms,225

Thread,84, 171

Tides of Barnegat, reinforced,109

Tight backs,44

Tight backs, mending,181

Title page, where to place,134

Title pages, vagaries of,136

Tobacco smoke, effect on leather,58

Tooling,39

Tools for repairing,172

Tools used in lettering,194

Tools used in mending,172

Torn leaves, mending,178

Trimming,32, 48

Turkey morocco,69

Turwar bark,56

Two-on, sewing,23

Use determines kind of binding,4

Valueless books, discarding of,121

Vaseline for leathers,61

Vellum,71

Vellum corners,48

Warp, strength of,75

Waterproof cloths,81

Weft, strength of,75

Well-bound book, how to recognize,49

Whipstitching,24

White ink, when used,193

Wire, Dr. G. E., on preservation of leather,60

Wool sheep,64