binding specifications
The description of the materials, manufacturing
processes, and standards of workmanship to be
employed in binding books for a library or similar
institution. Material specifications include the
quality and weight (or size) of thread, paper,
cloth (or leather), adhesives, mending tissues,
gold, foil, inks, etc., of such things as
endpapers, guards, stubs, hinges, inlays, linings,
tapes, sewing thread. covering materials, and the
like. Manufacturing specifications include
collation, preparation for sewing, special
checking, reinforcing, removing back folds,
scoring, construction and attachment of endpapers,
trimming, gluing-up, blocking, casing-in,
inspection, etc. Workmanship specifications
include sewing, rounding and backing, adhesion of
materials, turn-ins, squares, corners, trimming
and the like. Specifications, it should be noted,
are not intended to instruct the binder in how to
bind a book, but only to insure an acceptable end
product. (16 , 25 , 83 )
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