Identifier: printingbookbind00vaugrich (find matches)
Title: Printing and bookbinding for schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughn, Samuel Jesse, b. 1877
Subjects: Printing Bookbinding
Publisher: Bloomington, Ill. : Public school pub. co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rial for illustration, design,lettering, etc., in the art work. Again, the bookbinding work in its elementary aspectsof construction is peculiarly adapted to children. This isevidenced by the fact, easily demonstrated, that children doas well in their particular grades of work as matured butinexperienced people can do in the same grades of work. Aside from the logical development and the genuine-ness of the problems presented and their intimate relations to the other work, perhaps the strongest argument in favorof bookbinding in the schools, is the fact of its adaptabil-ity to the conditions of the ordinary school room, with butlittle equipment and hence but little expense. The work may be carried on in the primary and inter-mediate grades with as small, but practically the sameequipment, as is necessary for such activities as cardboardconstruction and kindred work. It ^^■ill be seen by reference to page 45 how inexpensiveeven a good equipment for upper grade and high schoolwork is.
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I. CLASSES OF BINDINGS. Forwarding— Finishing. In advanced bookljinding, there are the two generaldivisions of work:—Forwarding, which includes in newbooks, sewing, backing, putting on boards, and covering;and finishing, which has to do with the lettering, tooling,inlaying, and general decorative treatment. The elementary and high school treatment of the sub-ject of bookbinding, such a treatment as is undertaken inthe present volume, is almost wholly concerned with thevarious processes included in the term Forwarding, whichin rebinding includes a number of other steps not men-tioned above. Case Binding; Library Binding; Extra Binding. Based upon their methods of sewing, backing, covering,finishing, etc., there may be said to be three general classesof bindings:—Case Binding, Library Binding, and ExtraBinding. These are arbitrary terms applied to methods ofbinding which have been fully established and recognized. In the modern commercial binderies, all kinds of modi-fications, co

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