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Last updated March 2004.

QUARTER BUCKRAM, PAPER SIDES.

This particular binding is durable, stable, and reversible. It consists of: hand sewing onto woven tapes, spine-lining with unbleached cotton stretch cloth, Davey Red Label binder's board glued directly to the endsheets, spine covered in starch-filled buckram, sides lined with paper. The construction procedures are as follows:

The paper is folded and pressed with the double-folio endsheets.
The sewing pattern is set up (i.e. tapes spaced evenly between the top of the book and the kettle-stitch at the tail).
Sewing swelling is knocked down.
Spine and stretch-cloth are glued, tapes set down, and the spine lined and well rubbed down.
Front and back boards are glued and laid on (flush with the head and 1/4" from the back), and the book pressed.
Buckram and spine is glued and the buckram laid on flush with the head. The joints should be well set and the spine rubbed down.
The book is trimmed on the fore-edge.
The siding paper is glued and laid slightly over the edge of the buckram and turned in at the fore-edge.
The book is trimmed at head and tail.