Ein Rahmen von W. Collin, Berlin der in der ZDF Serie Bares für Rares am 02.01.2019 erschien. Ich bekam während des Sommers Fragen von der Sendung zu W. Collin. Schön jetzt das Programm zu sehen.
Abgeledert! Diese Verhandlung geht auf keine Kuhhaut
Bares für Rares is a German equivalent for Antiques Roadshow with the difference that dealers actually bid for the piece and buyers get a sense of "true" value.
Über die Sonderabteilung für Handeinbände schrieb Ernst Collin, "Wie die Mehrzahl der führenden Leipziger Großbuchbindereien, so verfügt auch die Firma E.A. Enders über eine Sonderabteilung für Handeinbände. Mit dieser Abteilung wird die handwerkliche Tradition des Unternehmens gewahrt. Abbildungen von Handeinbänden zumeist nach Entwürfen von H. Hußmann sind den Darlegungen über die Enderssche Werkstätte beigegeben: Eine moderne Stilsprache, die aus traditioneller Vornehmheit wichtige Anregungen geschöpft hat, ist das Kennzeichen dieser Einbände..."
About the extra-binding department, Ernst Collin wrote that like most of the large trade binderies in Leipzig, E.A. Enders also had such a department. These departments preserved the handbinding roots of what had become very large binderies. Depicted bindings in the book were largely designed by H. Hußman and represent the Enders aesthetic of a modern style that draws on traditional noblesse is the hallmark of their bindings.
Über die Sonderabteilung About the extra-binding department
Einband von Musterbetriebe deutscher Wirtschaft Cover of Musterbetriebe deutscher Wirtschaft
1913 war Leipzig das Zentrum des deutschen Buchhandels und Verlagswesens. Zu den prominenten Unternehmen der Stadt gehörten Verlage wie F. A. Brockhaus, Reclam oder Breitkopf & Härtel. Hier wurden der Duden, Meyers Konversationslexikon und 90 Prozent der weltweiten Notenproduktion gedruckt. Nun zeigt eine digitale Karte, wie flächendeckend das Gesicht der Stadt damals vom Buchgewerbe geprägt war.
Für die digitale Buchgewerbekarte wurden insgesamt 2.200 Firmenstandorte in einer Datenbank erfasst und nach Gewerbetypen sortiert. Dazu kamen die heutigen Entsprechungen der historischen Adressen und die Geokoordinaten. Alles zusammen wurde in eine digitale Karte mit historischem Overlay überführt.
In 1913 Leipzig was the center of publishing, book production, and publishing. Among the most prominent business were publishers like F.A. Brockhaus, Reclam, or Breitkopf & Härtel. The Duden, Meyers Konversationslexikon, and 90% of sheetmusic and scores worldwide were printed here. Now, an interactive digital map shows how widely distributed the book trade was in Leipzig. 2,200 businesses were captured and coded by type, historic addresses overlaid onto a map from 1913 using GIS to create the map. The map is the result of a cooperative project between the German Books and Writing of the German National Library and the Office for Geoinformation and Planning of the City of Leipzig. [Unfortunately for non-German speakers, the map and navigational elements are only in German]
Auf Karte klicken für Großansicht Click on map to enlarge
Leipzig war auch Heimatstadt der BUGRA, der damals weltweit größten Buchmesse die ein Höhepunkt von 1914 war. Ernst Collin schrieb mehrere Aufsätze und Artikel zum Thema. Siehe auch 100 Jahre Bugra.
Leipzig was also home to the BUGRA, then the largest tradeshow for the book trades that was the highpoint of 1914. Ernst Collin wrote numerous articles about the BUGRA.
Ich habe hier schon einige Aufsätze zum Thema von Buchbinderei als Rehabilitation geteilt, unter anderem einen langen von Paul Adam.
Neulich fand ich beim Googlen einen zum Thema (auch wenn nicht spezifisch zur Buchbinderei) von Ernst Collin, "Zukunft unserer Kriegsbeschädigten" (Hamburgische Lazarett-Zeitung, Nr 14, 1 Juli, 1916). In dem Aufsatz schreibt Collin über die Notwendigkeit der vollen Wiedereingliederung in das produktive Berufsleben, wenn möglich das Alte, der "Kriegsbeschädigten." Alle vier Jahrgänge der digitalisierten Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek Berlin sind hier aufrufbar.
I've already posted several articles on the subject of bookbinding for rehabilitation, among those a longer article from Paul Adam. While googling recent, I found one related to the subject (not specific to bookbinding) by Ernst Collin, "Zukunft unserer Kriegsbeschädigten" (Hamburgische Lazarett-Zeitung, Nr 14, 1 Juli, 1916). In the article, Collin addresses the need to fully reintegrate severely wounded veterans into the workforce, and if possible their original jobs. All four volumes are in the digital collections of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin and can be viewed here.
Obwohl Collin die Buchbinderei in seinem Aufsatz nicht erwähnt, konnte ich dieses Bild auf Seite 4 von Nr. 11 finden. Auf der nächsten Seite stand "In Bild 3-6 kommt schon der Ernst des Lebens zu seinem Recht. Neben Papparbeiten werden tadellose Bucheinbände gefertigt..."
Although Collin did not speak to bookbinding in his article, I found this image on page 4 of Nr. 11. On the next page it said, "In pictures 3-6 the seriousness of life must be addressed. Along with paper products [such as boxes, calendars, portfolios, ...] impeccable bindings are created..."
Papparbeiten und Bucheinbände
Paper products and bookbindings
I love this old advertising and its visual flair. In this installment we go from board shears to animals ending with a glue on the basis of fish. All images from the 1929 volume of the Allgemeiner Anzeiger für Buchbindereien.
Looking for an affordable board shear? Only RM 370 from Krause in Leipzig.
"Mutt Brothers'" sewing tape weavers.
For hand- and machine-sewing of books.
Syndetikon "sticks, glues, fixes everything." It was invented by Otto Ring in 1880 and was made on the basis of fish glue... The ads below were created by Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens. Its time ended with the death of Ring and the advent of synthetic / solvent based adhesives in the 1930s. These also had the advantage of not smelling like fish...
There's more about Syndetikon and its inventor Otto Ring in this German article from the Spiegel that has many more images, most in color.
The Complex of All of These by Abigail Bainbridge is a wonderful book that I am very happy to call my own. The book is out-of-print, a good thing in the world of fine print and small editions, but a PDF is available here.
In her own words, the author "contemplates the world around her. Images and words become parallel languages, where the distinction between ground and sky, past and present collapses. One conceit after another feels its way over the tiny words before sinking deep into the dark of the etching ink to linger, trembling."
I was attracted to the book when I discovered the video the other made of the entire process from making the etchings to paper, to binding during her residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. Ever since, I have used it in the presentations I gave on book arts at Syracuse University Libraries. The video composed from over 3000 still images used have a really snappy musical soundtrack, but DRM took that away. I'm glad Abigail put it back up even if now silent. Just imagine a metronome at about 110~115 beats per minute.
What I feel the video does VERY well is show the binding process from the sewing, to rounding and backing, trimming, endbanding, making the case, and casing in as a batch. It does that via the rapid-fire sequencing of the still images.
The creator is now in the UK, working in private practice as a book and paper conservator and teaching at West Dean College.
Recent acquisition of a postcard depicting a bookbinding workshop at the Red Cross Institute for the Blind in Baltimore, MD. The postcard is ca. 1920.
The image depicts a basic, well-equipped workshop with a boardshear, sewing
frame, heated glue pot, and an unidentified device at the far end of the bench.
Bookbinding offers a splendid form of finger training for the men, and while
not many are likely to enter the profession, the handling of small objects in the
making of boxes, index files, as well as the binding of books, has proved to be
an excellent industrial activity.
While the postcard describes this as an activity for men, it seems that half the individuals in the image are women, at least judging by the clothing.