Peter D.Verheyen

"Fancied-up" books. I don't like rebinding trade books for any number of reasons - bad design, boring paper, signatures (if extant) too fat, perfect bound... However, it is an established part of the trade. In the past two years I've (re)bound just those kinds of books as presentation bindings to their authors who were retiring as faculty. These are fun, if at times conceptually challenging.

More at
https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2012/11/fancied-up-books.html

Also here: https://henryhebert.net/2012/08/28/how-to-fancy-up-a-book/

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Fancied-up Books

In his post from August 28th, Henry Hébert offers many great ideas for taking trade books (originally paperback or hardcover is irrelevant ...

Nov 11, 2022 at 5:08pmWeb
Show threadPeter D.VerheyenNov 23, 2022

The concept of rebinding old, or even new books is not novel. One of Hermann Nitz's innovations was the Kombinationseinband, that combined machine sewing with simplified forwarding that gave the appearance of an extra binding at lower cost, and without sacrificing quality. It was first described in this pamphlet Über einen neuen Einband-Typ published by Spamer in 1923.

https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2016/01/hermann-nitzs-kombinationseinband-ur.html

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Hermann Nitz's "Kombination" Binding, the Ur-Fancied-up Book

Deutsch hier Back in August 2012, Henry Hebert who was at the time a NBSS student coined a new term, fancied-up books. By this he meant...

Show threadColorblind CowboyNov 12, 2022
@PressbengelProj that’s incredible work.