Fine Book Design

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Serving NYC, Metropolitan Area and Nationwide with fine custom binding, wedding albums, guest books, clamshell boxes, slipcases, leather journals, professional portfolios, custom leather gifts, personal and corporate presentations.

12/05/2013

Some of the earliest books were bound wax tablets. Diptychs, a work of art on two panels, and then polyptych, multi paneled artwork, were connected in a fashion similar to the modern book spine.

12/03/2013

The word "codex" refers to an ancient collection of writing bound together like a book. It originated from Roman times, and meant "block of wood," possibly referring to a collection of wood tablets. It can also refer to other ancient texts, such as the ancient Mayan Dresden Codex.

11/28/2013

With the use of the printing press in the mid-15th century, books began to become standardized. As bound books became more accessible, they began to be stored on their sides, instead of on flat surfaces, and titles were added to the spine.

11/26/2013

One way of binding a hardcover book that allows to book to lay flat when opened is "sewing through the fold". The signatures have very wide margins, allowing the sewing of the signatures to be done far enough out for the pages to be read while flat.

11/21/2013

The craft of bookbinding has been around since at least 100 BC. One of the earliest known books was bound with wood and included pages made from palm leaves that had been cut in half.

11/19/2013

During the Islamic Golden Age, the Arabs made incredible advancements in book binding, binding them with silk and leather covered paste boards. Book production became a big industry, and by the 1100s several large cities had streets with more than 100 bookshops.

11/14/2013

Early printing presses borrowed their basic technology from grape presses, which were used to make wine since the Roman Empire. During the 1300s and 1400s, people would make prints on cloth or paper out of pre-cut wooden blocks, one page or design at a time. It made producing enough pages for an entire book costly and time-consuming.

11/12/2013

The Chinese imperial court official Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD, but it took another 200 years for it to widely be used as a writing material. Before than it was mostly used for wrapping and padding.

11/07/2013

Books can be rebound or restored. Restoration uses as much of the original pages and binding as possible to restore the book. If the binding is too deteriorated, partial restorations allow for the use the binding that remains.

11/05/2013

“The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never case out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.” – Howard Pyle

10/31/2013

Several pieces of technology had to come together to make our modern books: Paper had to be invented and made easily. Printing had to be adaptable to different pages, and the technique of binding paper into pages had to be invented. These all started development around 500 BC, but finally came together in the 1500s.

10/29/2013

Double-fan adhesive binding is a technique used by modern bookbinders. A thin layer of glue is applied to each page edge and the pages then form a text block. The glue edges of the text block are attached to a piece of cloth that forms the spine.

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