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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 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 Topics referred to by the same term
A composition roller is a tool used in letterpress printing to apply ink to a bed of type in a printing press. It consists of a cylinder made of a substance known as "roller composition" or simply "composition", a mixture of hide glue and sugar (in the form of molasses or treacle ), with various additives such as glycerin depending on the ...
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.
Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread.
Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman's Library, 1906, based on the art of William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets ) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the ...
Binder's waste visible beneath the spine of a 17th-century printed book. Binding waste is damaged, misprinted, or surplus paper or parchment reused in bookbinding. [1] [2] Whether as whole sheets or fragments (disjecta membra), these may be used as the exterior binding, as the endpapers, or as a reinforcement beneath the spine.
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 ...