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Spine Repair
This last weekend I bought a copy of Synge, Riders to the Sear , 1911
Luce, Boston , the first American edition. I now have several of the American firsts of Synge that Luce published . The problem with this one is that the spine is damaged. The book has green boards and a tan quarter parchment-like binding over the spine. The portions of the parchment (?) glued to the boards is fine, but the part that would be loose over the back is gone. There would not have been a title on the spine as the whole play is only 46 pages long. So I was thinking that perhaps I could duplicate the paper and make a new spine cover. I was wondering if any of you are familiar enough with this series to be able to say if I am correct in classifying the needed item as parchment , or is it something else. Francis A. Miniter |
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"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message news:44bd29cc@kcnews01... This last weekend I bought a copy of Synge, Riders to the Sear , 1911 Luce, Boston , the first American edition. I now have several of the American firsts of Synge that Luce published . The problem with this one is that the spine is damaged. The book has green boards and a tan quarter parchment-like binding over the spine. The portions of the parchment (?) glued to the boards is fine, but the part that would be loose over the back is gone. There would not have been a title on the spine as the whole play is only 46 pages long. So I was thinking that perhaps I could duplicate the paper and make a new spine cover. I was wondering if any of you are familiar enough with this series to be able to say if I am correct in classifying the needed item as parchment , or is it something else. Francis A. Miniter I'm not familiar with that particular book, but in the 1880's, the London publishers Kegan, Paul, and Trench published a series of 16mo titles bound entirely in what appears to be parchment. The only title I have to hand, is Swift's Letters and Journals, although I've seen others knocking around in the shops, and I may have some others myself. All are in imitation of 15th and 16th c. Venetian and similar works. The point being that the title and front cover feature very fine printing including K,P,and T's device which would presumably be impossible on actual parchment, which as you know is animal skin. Aside from its being totally uneconomic to use in a trade series. This was before the days of plastic - except celluloid anyway, and I've often puzzled as to what it is. Paper containing a lot of size or glue perhaps - applied either before or after printing. It's possible to create a similar material by soaking paper in sufficiently thick cold water paste. While nowadays of course, the term "parchment" is applied to certain textures of laser\inkjet paper as well. michael adams .... |
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