Library


The Guild has an extensive library consisting of books, magazines and journals. These are available for members to borrow on workshop days or by contacting the Librarian. All books are available for loan for 2 weeks.
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A

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Abbey's Advocate. Special Commemorative Edition, 25th  Anniversary September 1968-1993

Abbey's Bookshop

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

M

ABC of Bookbinding

Jane Greenfield

Oak Knoll

1998

 

 

Q33

Account of Work done in the Bindery at the Public Library of NSW

Robert King

 

 

 

Binding History

Q48A

Adhesive Softcover Binding

Pete Jarman

 

 

Pamphlet

Paperback & Adhesive Binding

 

Adjustable Book Cradle Design

Janet Beeson Boyd

 

 

 

 

 

All Kinds of Papercrafts

John Portchmouth

Studio Vista

1972

 

Paper

Q82

Alphabet and Elements of Lettering

Frederic W Goudy

 

1989

 

Type

Q32

Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding

J A Szirmai

 

 

 

Binding History

Q97A

Art Nouveau & Art Deco Bookbinding 1880-1940

Alistair Duncan & Georges de Bartha

 

 

 

Binding History

Q22

Art of Calligraphy

George L Thomson

 

1990

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

Q100

Art of Illuminated Manuscripts - Illustrated Sacred Writings 4th-6th Centuries

J O Westwood

Arch Cape

1988

 

Book History

Q109

Art of Marbled Paper: Marbled patterns and how to make them

Einen Miura

Zaehnsdorf

1988

 

Marbling / Endpapers

Q67

Atlas of Typeforms

James Sutton & Alan Bartram

 

1988

 

Type

Q96

Australian Bookbinders and Bookbinding of the 19th Century

Carol Mills

 

 

Pamphlet

Binding History

 

Australian Bookbinders Exhibition 1999

 

Berkelouw's Bookshop Dec-Jan

1999/2000

 

Exhibitions

 

Australian Exhibition - Contemporary Binding 1992

 

Canberra Craft Bookbinders' Guild

1992

 

Exhibitions

Q4

Authors' and Printers' Dictionary

F Coward Collins

OUP

1956

 

Printing Glossary

15

B

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Before Photocopying:  The art and history of mechanical copying 1780-1938

Barbara Rhodes & William Wells Streeter

 

1999

 

Printing

Q84

Beginner's Guide to Warehousing, Book binding and Blocks

Leslie Luker

 

 

 

Printing

55

Binder Vision - V1

 

 

VHS

 

Book Design

V1 

Binder Vision - V2

 

 

VHS

 

Book Design

V2

Binder Vision - V3

 

 

VHS

 

Book Design, Conservation and Restoration

V3

Binder Vision - V4

 

 

VHS

 

Book Design, Conservation and Restoration

V4

Binding:  Entries in Diderot's Encyclopedia. - English Translation

Adrienne Allen

 

 

 

Binding History

19A

Book Arts Exhibition, 1993. Papermakers of Victoria, Calligraphers' Society of Victoria & Victorian Bookbinders' Guild

 

Victorian Bookbinders' Guild – 4-28 November 1994

1994

 

Exhibitions, Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

 

Book before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental

David Diringer

Dover

1983 - Reprint of The Hand Bound Book 1953

 

Book History, Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

21

Book Cloth Workshop

Teresa Duhigg

 

 

Pamphlet

Covering Materials

 

Book Making in Diderot's Encyclopedie:  A Facsimile of articles and plates with an introduction by G.G.Barber. Text in French

 

 

 

 

Binding History

Q21

Book of Fine Paper

Silvie Turner

Thames and Hudson

1998

 

 

Q103

Book of Hours of Panonhalma

 

 

 

Odd Format

Book History

 

Book of Paperbacks

Peter Schreuders

Virgin Press

1981

 

Paperback

76

Book:  Art and Object

Philip Smith

 

 

 

Book Design

Q89A

Book:  The story of printing and Book Making

D C McMurtrie

Dorset

1981

 

Binding History

57

Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965

Tom Conroy

Oak Knoll

2002

 

Tools

Q16

Bookbinding

J S Hewitt-Bates

 

1962

 

Marbling / Endpapers

39

Bookbinding and Conservation by Hand:  A working guide

Laura S Young

 

Revised. 1995

 

Conservation and Restoration

Q111

Bookbinding and the Care of Books

Douglas Cockerell

Pitman, London

1948  (rp of 1925)

 

Conservation and Restoration

13

Bookbinding in the British Isles, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. Catalogue 121 - 2 vols

 

Maggs Bros

1996

 

Binding History

Q56

Bookbinding Leather in Technical Notes. US Government

 

 

 

 

Leather

 

Bookbinding:  Its background and technique

Edith Diehl

 

 

 

Binding History

20

Bookbinding: Work handbooks. Colouring, sprinkling, marbling book edges; marbling endpapers

Paul N Hasluck

 

 

Photocopy

Marbling / Endpapers

38

Bookcloth 1823-1980:  A study

William Tomlinson & Richard Masters

 

 

Photocopy

Binding History, Covering Materials

Q102

Book-Finisher's Friendly Circular. Friendly Society of Journey- men Bookbinders of London 1845-51

 

 

Reprint 1990

 

Binding History

6A

Books and Bookbinding. Extracts from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Crafts  (1852-4) & Chambers's Encyclopaedia

 

 

1903

 

Binding History

76

Books, Boxes and Portfolios

 

 

 

 

Boxes

Q112

Bound to Stand Alone. Exhbition

Daniel Neville

Fables Bookshop, Adelaide  20 Nov-20 Dec 1986.

1986

 

Exhibitions

 

Bradel Binding:  Notes from workshop

Bettine Gresford

 

 

Pamphlet

Bradel Binding

 

Brochure de Conservation:  Montage sans colle. Text in French.

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

 

Building Purulia Exhibition Catalog

 

Eryldene 2-4 May 2003

2003

Catalogue 4p A4

Exhibitions

 

 

C

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Canisius College Finishing Tools

 

Morocco Bound v.8 no.3-4, 1987

 

Supplement

Tools

Q11

Card Stock Enclosures for Small Books

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Boxes

 

Care and Repair of Books

H M Lydenberg & J.Archer

Bowker

1945

 

Conservation and Restoration

56

Care of Fine Books

Jane Greenfield

Lyons

1988

 

Conservation and Restoration

30

Caring for books and documents - 2nd ed

A D Baynes Cope

British Library

1989

 

Conservation and Restoration

3

Celtic Design - Knotwork:  The Secret Method of the Scribes

Aidan Meehan

 

 

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

61

Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials

Carolyn Horton

American Library Association nd

 

 

Conservation and Restoration

42

Cockerell Marbled Papers - Binder Vision 2

 

 

 

VHS

Marbling / Endpapers

V2

Coming of the Book:  The impact of printing 1450-1800

Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Martin

 

1986

 

Binding History, Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

23

Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Bookbinding Machinery, Materials, Rolls, Tools, Corners &c. Harrild 1892

 

 

Reprint 1988

 

Tools

Q39

Contemporary Book Binding: a Queensland Arts Council Touring Exhibition 1985-86

 

 

1985-86

 

Exhibitions

 

Contemporary Designer Bookbindings, Europe & Australia.

 

 

 

 

Exhibitions

 

Crafts Council of Australia 1984

 

 

1984

 

Exhibitions

 

Craftsman?s Guide to Edge Decoration

John Mitchell

Standing

1993

 

Finishing

Q66

 

D

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Day at the Bookbindery of Lippincott Grambo & Co

Lippincott Grambo & Co.

 

 

 

Binding History

41

de Gonet, Jean. Reliures, chez Claude Guerin. 6-30 Oct 1982.  

 

 

1982

 

Exhibitions

 

Decorative Marbling

Solvieg Stone

Merehurst, London

1993

 

Marbling / Endpapers

Q94

Domesday Book. Rebinding, Photos

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Binding History, Conservation and Restoration

 

Domesday Preserved

Helen Forde

HMSO

1986

 

Binding History, Conservation and Restoration

Q29

 

E

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Edelpappband or "Millimeter" Binding

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Binding Styles

 

Eloquent Witnesses:  Bookbindings and their history

Mirjam Foot ed

 

 

 

Binding History

24A

Encuardernadores Valencianos: siete siglos de artesiania, - Text in Spanish

Jose A Alvarez

Valencia

1992

 

Binding History

Q1

Establishment and Development of Engraving and Lithography in Melbourne to the time of the Gold Rush

Thomas A Darragh

 

1990

 

Binding History, Printing

19

Everyday Life of a German Printer

Giovanni Caselli

 

 

 

Book History

Q12

 

F

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Fine Words -- Fine Books:  Masterworks of modern calligraphy and bookbinding.  An Exhibition by Designer Bookbinders& Society of Scribes and  Illuminators

 

 

1991

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

Q27

Floraison: 37 Calligraphes Contemporains -  Text in French

Alain Mazaran

Mazeran Paris

1987

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

Q59

For the Love of the Binding:  Studies in book binding history presented to Mirjam Foot

David Pearson

 

2000

 

Binding History

Q78

 

G

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

 

German Case (Bradel) Binding

Peter D Verheyen

 

Reprint

Pamphlet

Bradel Binding

 

Graphic Arts

Frederick D Kagy

 

1981

 

Printing

Q49

Great Books and Book Collectors

Alan G Thomas

 

 

 

Book History

Q99

Guide to Conservation Mounting and framing of Works of Art on Paper

Sotheby's nd

 

 

Pamphlet

 

 

Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the World Wide Web

Andrew K Pace

 

 

 

Book Design

Q35

Guidelines for Conservation Framing of Works of Art on Paper.

Institute of Paper Conservation

 

1991

Pamphlet

 

 

Guidelines for Conservation Framing of Works of Art on stitute of Paper Conservation

 

 

1991

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

 

 

H

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Harrild & Sons. Complete Illustrated Catalogue

 Harrild & Sons

 

 

 

Binding Equipment

Q39

Hidden Kaestner brass type specimen

 Krefeld

ca. 1905.From the typography collection in the Brandywine Press Archive. Microfiche

1986

Pamphlet

Type

 

History and Development of Bookbinding

Allan T Stratton

 

 

 

Binding History

83

History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique - 3rd ed

Bernard C Middleton

 

 

 

Binding History

62

History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique – 4th ed

Bernard C Middleton

 

1996

 

 

63

History of Printers and Printing in Llanrws

S I Wicklen

 

1984

 

Book History, Printing

94

History of the Horn Book

Andrew W Tuer

 

1st 1897

 

Book History

87

History of the Illustrated Book

John Harthen

 

 

 

Book History, Printing

Q4A

History of the Illustrated Book:  The Western Tradition

John Harthan

 

 

 

Book History, Printing

Q40

How to Clothbind a Paperback Book: a step-by-step guide for beginners

Francis J Kafka

 

1980

 

Paperback

Q48

How to Hand Make Recycled Paper

 

 

1959

VHS

 

V6

How to Modify a Spokeshave to Pare Leather

J Hewit & Sons

 

 

 

Leather

 

How to use your Kingsley machine

 

 

2006

Pamphlet

Printing, Finishing

 

 

I

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Illuminated Declaration of Independence - Penned in 1905 by Sherman

Ellsworth Notestine

 

1976

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

Q44

Illustrated Graphics Glossary

Ken Garland

1980

 

 

Printing, Glossary

26

Indexes of Terms

Jonathan Lee Lyons

 

 

Pamphlet

Glossary

 

Introduction to Carragheen and Water-color Marbling

Paul & Diane P Maurer

Maurer

1984

Photocopy

Marbling / Endpapers

Q58

Introduction to the care and repair of books

 

 

 

 

Conservation and Restoration

Q43A

Irish Bookbindings

Maurice Craig

Irish Heritage

 

 

Binding History

Q18

 

J

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

John Gutenberg and the Art of Printing in A Printer's Progress &c

 anon

 

1993

 

Printing

77

 

K

L

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Leather

 

Printout from Australian Museums online

 

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

Q54A

Letter

James Hutchinson

Van Nostrand

 

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

43

Letter Formation:  An authoritative course

C I Harrison

 

 

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

36

Lettering Book

Noelene Morris

Ashton

1982

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

Q68

Lettering on Books

Arthur W. Johnson

 

 

 

Alphabet, Calligraphy & Lettering

44

Literacy through the Book Arts

Paul Johnson

 

 

 

 

Q46A

Lithographer 1 & 2, Volume 2

Bureau of Naval Personnel

US Navy & US Government Printing Office

1956

 

Printing

54

Loose Lid Box Construction

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Boxes

 

 

M

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Make your own Paper

Anthony Hopkinson

Dryad

 

Pamphlet

 

 

Methods of Book Design

Hugh Williamson

 

 

 

Glossary

95

Metiers d'Art no. 14, Feb 1981. La Reliure. Text in French.

 

 

 

 

Marbling / Endpapers

Q60

Modern British Bindings. An Exhibition..10-24 June 1983

 

 

1983

 

Exhibitions

 

New Specimen Book and Price List of Cast Brass Type and Handle Letters

Supplier not named

 

1915

 

Type

Q97

 

N

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Nineteenth [XIXth] Century Ornamental Types

Nicolette Gray

 

1938

 

Type

28

Nineteenth Century Bookbinding Techniques at the Harcourt Bindery

Samuel B Ellenport

Harcourt Bindery

 

DVD

Binding History

D8

NSW Government Printing Office. Auction Catalogue - October 1989

 

 

1989

Catalogue

Printing

Q74

 

O

P

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Paper and Paper Making

F H Norris

 

1952

 

 

Q7

Paper Conservation News

 

 

 

Periodical

Conservation and Restoration

 

Paper Plus:  Artist Books and Dewsigner Bookbinding.

 

Crafts Council of the ACT

1987

 

Exhibitions

 

Paperback Rebind

Pete Jarman

 

 

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration, Paperback & Adhesive Binding

 

Practical Guide to Book Repair and Conservation

Arthur W Johnson

Thames and Hudson

1998

 

Conservation and Restoration

Q45

Practical Guide to Marbling Paper

Anne Chambers

Thames and Hudson

1986

 

Marbling / Endpapers

Q13

Preserving our Printed Heritage:  The Long Room Project of Trinity College

 

 

1988

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

 

Printing Explained:  An elementary practical handbook for schools and amateurs

 

 

1947

 

Printing

78

Printmate:  A graphic arts reference book

Trevor Wilson

Associated Pulp & Paper Mills, Melbourne

1989 2nd Ed 1991

 

 

96

Private Press:  The Escutcheon Press 1986-1990

R E Summers

 

 

 

Printing

Q95

 

Q

R

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Format

Category

Cat #

Reattaching Boards in Repair of Leather Bindings

Ron Eadie

Victorian Bookbinders' Guild [extract] nd

 

 

Conservation and Restoration

22

Reliure Bradel. Text in French.

 

 

 

 

Bradel Binding

Q83A

Reliure des Brise ou Ficelle Passe.- Text in French

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

 

Renovating Books

Alison Harding

 

1980

 

Conservation and Restoration

35

Repairing a Book with a Damaged Spine or Broken Cords

 

 

 

Pamphlet

Conservation and Restoration

 

Repairing the Humble Paperback

Peter Goodwin

 

 

DVD

Paperback & Adhesive Binding

D3

Restoration of Leather Bindings

Bernard Middleton

American Library Association

1979

 

Conservation and Restoration

Q62

Restoration of Leather Bindings - 3rd ed Revised and expanded

Bernard C Middleton

Oak Knoll & British Library

1998

 

Conservation and Restoration

Q64

Restoration of Leather Bindings - Revised edition

Bernard Middleton

American Library Association

1984

 

Leather

Q63

Restoring the 1819 Atlas

Peter Goodwin

 

 

DVD

Restoration

D5

Restoring the Family Bible

Peter Goodwin

 

 

DVD

Conservation and Restoration

D4

Russian Illuminated Manuscripts. - 48 color plates with commentary