The McCune Collection

The Printing Arts of Yesteryear: Tips, Tales, and Techniques

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Ancient & Medieval Books

• Bk Trade Ancient Rome (1.5MB)
• Books in Middle Ages (1.6MB)
• Books of Clay (618Kb)
• Flatobog Icelandic Manuscript (767Kb)
• Vespasiano (1.6MB)

Binderies

• Br Binderies - W & R Chambers (991Kb)
• Nuns of Little Gidding (1.5MB)
• St Ann's Steam Binding Works (1MB)
• Ward, Locke Bindery (1.9MB)
• Zaehnsdorf's Bindery (2.7MB)

Book Notes

• Book Notes 1 (1.1MB)
• Book Notes 2 (983Kb)
• Book Notes 3 (2.6MB)
• Book Notes 4 (1.2MB)
• Book Notes 5 (1.7MB)
• Book Notes 6 (1.5MB)
• Book Notes 7 (1.6MB)
• Book Notes 8 (2.3MB)
• Book Notes 9 (577Kb)

Bookbinders' Trade Societies

• 1Bookbinders' Trade Societies (9.8MB)
• 2Bookbinders' Trade Societies (7.9MB)
• 3Bookbinders' Trade Societies (12.1MB)
• 4Bookbinders' Trade Societies (10.6MB)

British Bookmakers & Binders

• Archibald Guillan (356Kb)
• Blackie & Son (593Kb)
• Brit Bkmkr-William Andrew (1.8MB)
• Brit Bkmkr-William Collins (752Kb)
• Frank Dleny (1.1MB)
• George Bell (482Kb)
• George Lock (335Kb)
• James Burn (1.5MB)
• John Spencer (723Kb)
• Macmillan & Co (313Kb)
• Publisher Walter Hazell (388Kb)
• Richard Clay (538Kb)
• Samuel Colley (324Kb)

Embroidery

• Embroidered & Painted Bk Covers (1.3MB)
• Embroidery & Lace (1.4MB)
• Embroidery on Book Covers (1.4MB)
• Embroidery on Bookwork (603Kb)

Famous Bookbinders

• Archibald Leighton (1.4MB)
• Badier (1MB)
• Fr Binder- Alfred Mame (382Kb)
• Grolier (1.9MB)
• Robert Riviere (1.7MB)
• Roger Payne (2.3MB)

Famous Printers

• 1 William Caxton (5.7MB)
• Aldus Manutius (1.2MB)
• Anthony Koburger (246Kb)
• Chiswick Press (2.6MB)
• Ivan Fedoroff (2.7MB)
• Johann Gutenberg (4.9MB)
• John Baskerville's Body (410Kb)
• Nagahisa (2.9MB)
• Plantin (5.3MB)
• Successors of Caxton (1.7MB)
• Teobaldo (Aldus) Manuzio (1.1MB)
• William Blades (4MB)

Finishing

• Finishing (9.6MB)
• Hints to Finishers (1014Kb)

Forwarding

• On Forwarding (14.6MB)

History of Bookbinding

• 1Bookbinding-Ancient (8.5MB)
• 2Bookbinding-Inv of Printing (8MB)
• 3Bookbinding-16thC Germany-Spain (6.4MB)
• 4Bookbinding-17thC (10.7MB)
• 5Bookbinding-18thC (7.1MB)
• Br History of Decorative Binding (4.7MB)
• Dawn of Book Ornament (2.3MB)
• Early English Binding (2.6MB)
• English Bookbinding Henry 7 & 8 (6.6MB)
• History of Bookbinding (761Kb)
• Short History of Bookbinding (8.8MB)

Libraries & Collections

• Althorp Library (1.1MB)
• Bible Society Library (2.4MB)
• Guernsey Library (657Kb)
• Guildhall Library (3.3MB)
• King's Library at British Museum (482Kb)
• Library at Paules (2.3MB)
• Lichfield Cathedral Library (5.2MB)
• Old Eng Libr (2MB)
• Prince's Library (1.4MB)
• Public Libraries (843Kb)
• Travelling Library (1.5MB)
• Windsor Castle Library (3.2MB)
• Worcester Cathedral Library (6.2MB)

Marbling

• French Marbled Paper (835Kb)
• Marble Paper to Book Edges (574Kb)
• Marbled Paper Origin (938Kb)
• Marbling 058 (462Kb)
• Marbling Calf (1.1MB)
• Marbling Leather (576Kb)
• New Marble Papers (769Kb)
• On Marbling Leather (1022Kb)
• Tree Marbled Calf (995Kb)
• Tree Marbling (613Kb)

National Bookbinding

• 1Bookbinding in England (415Kb)
• American Binderies (968Kb)
• American School of Bookbinding (386Kb)
• Ancient ArabicBinding (948Kb)
• Armenian Monastic Bindery (811Kb)
• Bookbinding Isle of Man (394Kb)
• Bookbinding in Damascus (1.9MB)
• Bookbinding in England (1.1MB)
• Bookbinding in France (1.5MB)
• Early London Bookbindings (379Kb)
• French Binding Examples (1.3MB)
• German Bookbinding Seen (787Kb)
• German Bookbinding (781Kb)
• German Pig-Skin Binding (1.2MB)
• Oriental Bookbinding (1003Kb)
• Persian Bookbinders (821Kb)
• Russian Bookbindings (738Kb)

National Printing

• Chinese Printing (3.2MB)
• Early German & Italian Printing (385Kb)

New Books

• New Books - A Mendip Valley (334Kb)
• New Books - Hops & Hopping (827Kb)
• New Books - Making of Birmingham (748Kb)
• New Books - Ripon Millenary (760Kb)

Poems

• A Final Word (221Kb)
• Ballad of the Bookworm (635Kb)
• Bibliomaniac's Prayer (243Kb)
• Books and Bindings (223Kb)
• Bookseller's Soliloquy (294Kb)
• Fun Among the Poets (239Kb)
• German Bookbinder's Song (342Kb)
• Irish Binding Joke (234Kb)
• My Books (233Kb)
• New Books or Old (501Kb)
• Old Book Store (2) (683Kb)
• Old Book Store (657Kb)
• What, When, Who, 1 (1.3MB)

Portrait Gallery

• Portrait Gallery & Trade Unionism (411Kb)
• Portrait- Bailey Brothers (965Kb)
• Portrait- Bemrose (1.8MB)
• Portrait- Galwey (856Kb)
• Portrait- George Cross (907Kb)
• Portrait-C.J. Forward (1.8MB)
• Portrait-Cedric Chivers (1.1MB)
• Portrait-Diprose Brothers (2MB)
• Portrait-F Bedford (734Kb)
• Portrait-Fisher (1.4MB)
• Portrait-Geo Falkner (1.2MB)
• Portrait-George Simpson (908Kb)