Bookbinding The Traditional Way (Legacy Edition)

A Comprehensive Classic Guide for Bookbinding Projects and Technique

This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Paul N. Hasluck’s Bookbinding The Traditional Way (previously published as “Bookbinding” in 1902) is full of old-time tips and methods for learning the book-binder’s and printing press arts and for making your own beautifully bound DIY hardcover books in the traditional way. Originally published in 1902, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of bookbinding, including tools, technique, and plans for projects.

Hasluck describes many essential aspects of bookbinding, including the required tools, cloth-covering for covers, tooling and pressing covers, folding pages, sewing and combining page signatures, cutting and setting book edges, book decorations and traditional page marbling methods, page gilding, and lettering and decorating book covers and spines. 

This book makes a perfect gift for aspiring or expert book binders, DIYers, traditional crafters, homesteaders, and handcrafters of all kinds!

A part of the Hasluck’s Traditional Skills Library: Volume 4

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Bookbinding The Traditional Way is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

 

About the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Reprint Collection

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. But sometimes, remembering the old ways of doing things gives a human component to handcrafts and traditional arts. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery – the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren’t forgotten, they’ve just been shelved. It’s time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency!

As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Reprints Collection, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any homesteader’s, handcrafter’s, or outdoorsperson’s library and that can be passed to future generations.