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Binding an Early 19th Century Book in Period-Style Leather ,
with Michael L. Chrisman

In this Vol. 4 of the Bookbinders Workshop Instructional Series, Mr. Chrisman demonstrates the complete and historically correct rebinding of an early 19th Century book in period-style leather. He begins with a book that is lacking its entire binding and which needs to be completely re-sewn and rebound. Mr. Chrisman transforms this once lifeless book into a beautiful tome that has the look and feel of an original binding. Every aspect of the work is fully demonstrated and explained on camera.

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Price: $99.00

Table of Contents Disc 1
Chapter	Title
1	Introduction and Evaluating the Book
2	Cleaning the Spine
3	Dismantling the Text Block
4	Guarding the Sections
5	Preparing End Papers
6	Preparing the Text Block for Sewing
7	Stringing a Sewing Frame
8	Sewing in the Original Round
9	Trimming the end papers
10	Fitting and Attaching the Boards
11	Trimming the Leather for Coving
12	Paring the Leather
13	Dyeing the Leather
14	Fitting the Boards to the Shoulders
15	Gluing Up and Covering with Leather
16	Corners and Turn-Ins

Table of Contents Disc 2
17	Shaping the Corners, Head, and Tail
18	Preparing the Spine for Tooling
19	IMaking a Leather Label
20	Gold Tooling
21	Blind Tooling
22	Ageing
23	Gold Tooling the Board Edge
24	Pasting Down the End Sheets
20	Finishing Touches