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Dryad Press got its beginning in 1967 when Merrill Leffler and Neil Lehrman founded Dryad magazine. [2] Leffler was a writer and editor and is currently the poet laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland. His work has been published in books, [3] and in journals like the Jewish Book Council's Paper Brigade. [4]
A Bradel binding (also called a bonnet or bristol board binding) is a style of book binding with a hollow back. It most resembles a case binding in that it has a hollow back and visible joint, but unlike a case binding, the cover boards and spine stiffener are joined together with a strip of sturdy paper before covering.
The union was founded in 1921 as the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers when the National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers and the National Union of Printing and Paper Workers merged. The Platen Printing Machine Minders' Society and the London Society of Machine Rulers soon also joined.
In a more modern or commercial bindery, many decorative elements or letters are stamped onto a book's cover or case at the same time by use of a hot press. Modern, commercial, bookbinding outfits range in size from the local "copy shop" book binder, using techniques such as coil binding, comb binding and velo binding to factories producing tens ...
Polish immigrant Alfred H. Cahen founded the Commercial Bookbinding Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1902, expanding and adding a printing plant by 1912. In 1928 Cahen bought out his largest competitor, New York's World Syndicate Publishing Co. , officially taking on the name World Publishing Co. in 1935.
In bookbinding, swell refers to the increased thickness of a textblock along its spine edge after sewing. Swell is a function of the number of sections in the book, the kind of paper used, the style of sewing, and the thickness of the sewing thread. Human factors also influence swell, especially the force with which the bookbinder "bones down ...
a screw press used in the binding or rebinding of books; an early form of bookcase, used in medieval cloisters, to which books were attached using a chain
Edith Diehl (() May 21, 1876 – () May 12, 1953) was an American bookbinder and author of Bookbinding, its Background and Technique (Rinehart and Co., 1946), [2] [3] a classic text and manual on the history and craft of bookbinding in two volumes (republished in editions by Kennicat Press, 1965; Hacker Art Books, 1979; Dover, 1980).