Account books and ledgers

Rob Ridgen <rridgen [at] yahoo__ca>

>I am planning a seminar on the history, technology and conservation
>of ledger books, journals and account books.  I would like to focus
>on stationery bindings made during the 17th through 19th centuries,
>in Europe and North America. ...

We conserve many stationery binding styles at the National Archives.
I organised a day on "The History and Conservation of Stationery
Bindings" with IPC last year. I hope some of those talks will be
published soon. The following two articles describe very badly
damaged books.

    Kerstin Forstymeyer.
    "The Restoration of the Estate Register of the Chapter at
    Ellwangen: A case study on the Subject of Minimal Intervention",
    in The New Bookbinder, 21,2001 pp 72-77.

    Susanne Peuser.
    "Restaurierung eines Flexiblen Ledereinbands",
    in Papier Restaurierung 4, 2003, pp31-35 talks about repairing a
    15th century limp leather binding

I expect you know these binding manuals on 19th century springback
bindings in the following publications:

    John Mason.
    Stationery binding, London, Pitman: 1946

    Alex J. Vaughan.
    Modern Bookbinding, London, Skilton: 1960

    Ted Chapman.
    "Account book making: Sequence of Operations", in Morocco Bound
    11, 1990

    J. Monk and W F Lawrence.
    A Textbook of Stationery Binding, London, Raithley, Lawrence and
    Co.: 1912

Other manuals mentioning stationery bindings include:

    Oswestry, W. Price.
    The Whole Art of Bookbinding: 1811

    Henry Parry.
    Art of Bookbinding, London, Baldwin, Cradock and Jay: 1818

There is a Dutch publication which, I think, describes laced-case
stiff board binding (although not only a stationery style)

    Peter Goddijn.
    Westerse Boekbindtechnieken van de Middleeuwen tot heden,
    Amsterdam, De Buitenkant: 2001

Angela Craft
Book Conservation
The National Archives
Ruskin Avenue
Kew, Surrey TW9 4DU
UK
+44 20 8392 5330 ext 2434


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