Bookbinding

thumb|A traditional bookbinder at work thumb|Bookbinder's type holder

protective covering, often decorative, used to bind together the pages of a book

thumb|upright=1.35|Different types of endpapers, Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (Germany). thumb|Stockholm 1777 thumb|right|Marbled endpaper from Die Nachfolge Christi ed. Ludwig Donin (Vienna ca. 1875). thumb|right| Handcrafted marbled endpapers of a book manually bound in France around 1880 (Giacomo Leopardi, Œuvres, vol. 2). thumb|right|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 o

soft, pliable leather used for bookbinding, wallets, linings for luggage, gloves and shoes

thumb|300px|right|The catchword (in this case the last three letters "dos" of a divided word) is at the bottom of the page thumb|300px|right|The first page of the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Berachot, folio 2a). The catchword "דילמא" is found at the bottom of the Talmud text (center), and the commentaries of [[Rashi (center left) and the Tosafot (center right) as the word will begin each text on the next page, 2b.]]

thumb|upright=1|The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 thumb|Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection)

very small book

early 8th-century pocket gospel book

thumb|upright=1.2|Cumdach for the Stowe Missal, 11th century thumb|upright=1.0|The Soiscél Molaisse, 11th century A ' (, in Irish "cover") or book shrine' is an elaborate ornamented metal reliquary box or case used to hold Early Medieval Irish manuscripts or relics. They are typically later than the book they contain, often by several centuries. In most surviving examples, the book comes from the peak age of Irish monasticism before 800, and the extant cumdachs date from after 1000, although it is clear the form dates from considerably earlier. The majority are of Irish origin, with most survi

thumb|150px|Books from Napoleon Bonaparte's library with his supralibros thumb|150px|Supralibros showing the coat of arms of Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, [[archbishop of Salzburg (1772) on an education book]] A supralibros (from Latin supra = on and libros = books in the accusative case) is a coat of arms or monogram indicating the ownership of a book. Unlike the bookplate or ex-libris, which is stamped or pasted inside a book, the supralibros is applied to the book's cover. It is called "superexlibris" by the Library of Congress.

manuscript

French official, diplomat and bibliophile

commonly used book binding style

luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book covers such as leather, velvet, or other cloth

group of leaves, folded in the middle and bound together into a book binding

Stiffening is any process that increases the rigidity and structural integrity of objects. Stiffening is used in crafts, art, industry, architecture, sports, aerospace, object construction, bookbinding, etc.

thumb|The process of sewing a green and white secondary endband over a white primary endband. Front beads are visible. An endband is a cylindrical band sewn and/or glued to the head and tail of the spine of a book. It is slightly raised above the bookblock. An endband along the top edge of the book is called a headband, and one along the bottom edge is called a tailband. Sewn endbands, or 'true' endbands, are sewn into the gatherings of the bookblock and perform a mechanical function. They strengthen the sewing of the bookblock and sometimes the joint as well (the connection between the spine

term for manufactured upholstery material which contains animal hide

scene painted on the fore-edges of a book

tool

illuminated manuscript

Bookbinding methods

The Wittockiana, Museum of Book Arts and Bookbinding in Brussels (; ), formerly known as Bibliotheca Wittockiana, is a public museum and library in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, devoted to the arts of the book and of bookbinding.

ornamental linings on the inside of a book

study of manuscript fragments

Bibliophilic organization based in New York City

Early medieval psalter from Ireland