Month: January 2021

Springback bindings – a selected bibliography

  I’ve been working on springback bindings for many years and thought I’d share my selected bibliography on the subject. It’s not exhaustive but hopefully covers all the significant works. If you have any suggestions to add, do let me know! Click here for our springback bibliography.

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A cloth binding?

Let me present my latest find: M. Dupont, Ou La Jeune Fille Et Sa Bonne by Charles Paul De Kock (Paris, 1835). The book is an octavo, printed on paper; with tipped endleaves formed from single folds of white paper; multi-section sewn on three recessed cords; rounded and backed; with cut edges and without endbands. Importantly, it

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