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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Down The Rabbit Holes For The William Anthony Conservation Lecture Series

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Join me as I jump into some of my addictive, all-consuming, and yet, sustaining rabbit holes in  Down the Rabbit Hole: Embracing experience ...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

More about W. Collin's Clavigo

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Back in November of 2017 I shared images of a new W. Collin binding I acquired of Goethe's Clavigo . Below, the dealer's description...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Textbook for Trade School Apprentices

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Just received Der Fachunterricht der schmückenden Berufe, Buchbinder  (1927) by Beyer u. Weißenmüller. It was written to accompany the instr...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

W. Collin binding on v. Menzel

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Back in September of 2020, I acquired the W. Collin binding on Adolf von Menzel  depicted below.  This weekend, I downloaded a copy of Deuts...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Tool Talk 3: Edge Trimming Rule (Kantenlineal)

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Edge trimming rules have been mentioned the German bookbinding literature at least since Prediger in the first volume of his  Der in aller h...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Tool Talk 2 - Kaschiereisen (Frottoir/Grattoir)

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The Kaschiereisen as this tool is known in German is made to shape and consolidate the spine of a book in backing where it was used as an al...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Tool Talk 1 - Fray Shield (Aufschabeblech)

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 A looooooong time ago, not to long after I started this blog, I introduced the Aufschabebelch , a simple tool that one could purchase or ma...