Here are a few suggestions. Maybe Frank Comparato will answer all your
questions.
The Andrus Bindery, a History of the Shop, 1831-1838. Hartford CN, 1940.
Bookbinders' Trade Circular., 1850-1877.
Bundock, Clement J. The story of the National Union of Printing,
Bookbinding and Paper Workers. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1959.
Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Hartford. A Sketch descriptive of the
Printing-Office and Book-Bindery of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. with
Illustrations. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1877.
Comparato, Frank E. Books for the Millions: a History of the Men whose
methods and machines packaged the printed word. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:
The Stackpole Company, Kelker and Cameron Streets 17105, 1971. A history of
bookbinding technology in Europe and America, full of information about
practice. Heavily documented. Reviewed in BiN III/10/5. ISBN
0811702634. OCLC 210856. Schmidt-Kusemuller 4570. Oak Knoll 246 (2003)/236.
Ellenport, Samuel B. An Essay on the Development & Usage of Brass Plate
Dies including a Catalogue Raisonné from the Collection of the Harcourt
Bindery. Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 1980. Printed at the Haron Press. ISBN
90336794003. OCLC 6800505. Oak Knoll 246 (2003)/367 calls for 32 pages,
99 plates, and [7] pages of notes. Schmidt-Künsemüller 7414.
Grolier Club. Commercial Bookbindings. An historical sketch with some
mention of an exhibition of drawings, covers, and books, at the Grolier
CLub, April 5 to April 28, 1894. New York: Grolier Club, 1894.
Hodson, W. H. Hodson's Booksellers, Publishers and Stationers Directory
1855 A Facsimile of the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, With an
Introduction by Graham Pollard. Occasional Publication no. 7. Oxford:
Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library, 1972.
Howe, Ellic. "London bookbinders: masters and men, 1780-1840." Library,
Fifth series. 1, no. 1 (June 1946): 28-38. "A paper read to the
Bibliographical Society on 19 March 1946." This paper was "based mainly
upon a preliminary examination of the archives of the London Bookbinders'
Branch of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers."
-- Howe, A list of London Bookbinders p. ix.
Howe, Ellic, and John Child. The Society of London Bookbinders, 1780-1951.
London: Sylvan Press, 1952.
Jaffray, John. A Collection of Manuscripts related to the Art and Trade of
Book-binding., 1845. "This collection, now the property of the London
Bookbinders' Branch of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and
Paper Workers, consists of (1) Trade Siciety Minute Books (1790-1830), but
covering very few years before 1820. (ii) Printed 'Audits' (accounts) with
list of union members from 1821 onwards. (iii) Scrap books made by John
Jaffray c.1850. These mainly contian material relating to the period
1830--50, but there is a certain amount of earlier matter. (iv) A
manuscript volume compiled by Jaffray containing all the information he
could assemble relating to the Trade Society for the period 1786--1820 . .
Among the Jaffray MSS. are copies (various dates) of the Rules . . . of
the Bookbinders' Benefit Society,founded as a sick-club in 1792. The
membership consisted of journeymen and small masters. The list of members
in the 1816 edition is annotated with dates of decease. ..... " -- Ellic
Howe, "Introduction, V. The Jaffray MSS," A List of London Bookbinders
1648-1815..London: The Bibliographical Society, 1950, pp xxi-ii.
Leighton, Douglas. Bookbinding, yesterday, today and tomorrow. J. M. Dent
Memorial Lectures, No. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935.
???. "Canvase and bookcloth, an essay on beginnings." The Library 3, no. 1
(June 1948): 39-49.
Potter, Esther. "The London Bookbinding Trade: from craft to industry." The
Library, Sixth series 15, no. 4 (December 1993): 266, 273-4.
Turner, Michael. "London Book Trade Database." Oxford, 6 May, 2003. Date:
Wed, 07 May 2003 12:05:46 +0100. Not yet available on-line so you would
need to e-mail Michael at mlt@bodley.ox.ac.uk
British Book Trade Index - www.bbti.bham.ac.uk - which may help up to a
point, though it is less comprehensive for London that Michael Turner's
London Book-Trade database.
Wakeman, Geoffrey. Nineteenth century trade binding. Oxford: Plough Press,
1983. The samples include specimens of binding material, brass type, a
stamp, and a handle. OCLC 10138165.
John P. Chalmers
Chicago
At 05:43 AM 11/28/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I am looking for specific info on the following topics and would be most
>pleased to have your reply/advice. Thank you.
>
>Robert Milevski
>
>1. I ask for any assistance directing me to contemporary sources on
>19th century English and American trade bindery practice. I am especially
>interested in the English binderies. I do know about and have consulted
>the following articles/books: the article on Westleys that appeared in A
>Day at the Factories; the article on Lippincott, Grambo that appeared in
>Godey's; the book and article about Harpers; and Lionel Darley's book on
>James Burn & Co. I also know about the books Paul Koda edited for Oak
>Knoll on the Edward Walker and Cox binderies.
>
>2. I would like to know whether there are any contemporary sources
>(other than those mentioned above) about the piecework and individual
>production aspects in any mid-late 19th c. trade bindery, large or small,
>in England and America.
>
>3. I would like to know whether there is any specific information in
>any contemporary article or book (other than those mentioned above) on the
>hand sewing of books in these binderies. Specifically, did the sewers
>start with the first signature or the last? Was it common practice to sew
>book after book until the frame was filled, then cut each away with its cords?
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