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Monday, March 12, 2012

Bookbinding (Postage) Stamps

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Bookbinding has even made it onto stamps. Below are examples from my collection from Germany, France, and most recently Canada. Enjoy! I...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ludwig Schaible's German Bookbinders' Federation Membership Book

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Several years ago I was able to acquire the German Bookbinders' Guild membership book of a certain Ludwig Schaible. Herr Schaible was bo...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

German Bookbinder's Song of 1842.

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The Chorus by William Hogarth, ca.1850  German Bookbinder's Song of 1842. Who can be more contented, With life as ‘tis. presente...
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Reference Collection Work

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Spent the equivalent of a few fruitful days weeding and shifting my bookbinding/book arts reference collection so that I have _some_ space...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Der Buchbinder a la Die Sendung mit der Maus

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Great little German video by Marcel Ernst about bookbinding thematically based on Die Sendung mit Der Maus , a WDR show for kids that expla...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Aufschabeblech - What would it be called in English?

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From Paul Kersten's Die Buchbinderei und das Zeichnen des Buchbinders ... (Halle a.d. Saale, 1909), plate 1. An odd looking too...
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Vee alvays knew zis

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Seen on the QEW ( Queen Elizabeth Way ) leaving Toronto, Canada on the way home this afternoon... One of the most hideous highways I have ha...
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