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A correctly rounded spine

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Front cover of the copy owned by the Boston Public Library: "Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern, red morocco panelled and tooled in gilt; a Cosway-style binding with a miniature of Shakespeare after the Chandos portrait set into the upper cover." Shakespeare, William, W J. Craig, and P H. Lee-Warner. The Sonnets of Mr. William Shakespeare. London: Published for the Medici Society by P.L. Warner, 1913. Internet resource.</div>

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Publisher's binding with blocked design on the front cover and spine

Binding by Edgar Mansfield. "

Two versions of an edition binding of "The Nature Poems of George Meredith". The book on the left has cloth covered boards, and the book on the right is the "deluxe" version covered with vellum. Both versions are decorated with the same blocked design.

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> This design, completely created with roll tools was common to the period 1530-1630 in England. The book is bound in calf over wooden boards, with two clasps at the fore-edge; the catchplates on the lower cover in the English tradition. The metal centrepiece and corner pieces feature raised bosses, and the spine has a later-added gold-tooled red goatskin label. Raphael Holinshed, The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (At London: Imprinted for Iohn Harrison, 1577) Vol.1. qREng HOLI First 1577a.</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Eve style binding</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Examples of Roger Payne's binding</div>

Examples of finishing tool designs

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Advertisement for Eyre & Spottiswoode's sumach tanned leather</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> A French book cover decorated in the Fanfare style</div>

A wooden finishing press

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<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Gascon binding</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Contemporary German silver binding patterned with flowers and scrolling foliage hammered into relief from the reverse side. The covers and clasps are hinged, and there are pierced text-block retainers at the head and tail. The endpapers are red and gold. The text edges are gilt. Created in Ulm c.1700; the city mark occurs on the lower turn-in of the back cover and on the lower clasp. Possibly bound by Johann Adam Kienlin (1661-1740). Purchased 2008. Jesum liebender Seelen tägliche Himmel-Reis (Nürnberg: In Verleg. Joh. Andreä Endters Seel. Söhne, 1692). RGer GOBEL Jesum 1692</div>

A gilding press, advertised in a sale catalog for R. Hoe & Co, c.a. 1881

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Grolier style binding</div>

Guillotine paper cutter

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Advertisement for a magazine binder sold by the H.R. Hunttington Company, ca 1927</div>

A historial model of an 18th century halfstyle binding with marbled paper on the boards, and raised bands on the spine

A man hand-stamping a spine label

Women sewing textblocks using sewing frames

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Loose leaf books available in a 1912 Harrods catalog</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Notebooks and copy books available from the Harrods Stationery department, ca 1912</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Various albums available from the Harrods Stationery department, ca 1912</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Copy presses available from the Harrods Stationery department, ca 1912</div>

<div class="description mw-content-ltr en" dir="ltr" lang="en" style=""><span class="language en" title="">'''English:'''</span> Library paste for sale in a Hirshberg Art Co. catalog, ca 1910</div>

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