The Profession of Bookselling: A Handbook of Practical Hints for the Apprentice and Bookseller, Parte2Office of the Publishers' Weekly, 1895 |
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Página 133 - Appendices contain United States Government publications, January i, 1881, to June 30, 1884; publications of literary and scientific societies ; books published in series. American Catalogue, 1884-90, compiled under the editorial direction of RR Bowker by Miss AI Appleton and others. 410, half leather, $15.
Página 132 - and money may be here learned by the young librarian. The practical suggestions and information embodied in a single number are frequently worth ten times the year's subscription."—AR SPOFFORD, Librarian of Congress. "The American Library Journal should take its place upon the desk of every librarian and every collector of books, to whom it will furnish more than one useful
Página 132 - I consider the Journal one of the most valuable aids to librarians ever undertaken. I do not see how a librarian can venture to undertake his responsibilities without it. Every library, whether public or private, that spends $200 annually on its administration, cannot pay out $5 with more advantage to itself than by taking
Página 131 - 3. A monthly ^Index to the Weekly Record" being short-title entries, with the publisher's name and the size and price, arranged alphabetically by the authors, with references from the titles or catchwords and from the subjects. With each entry is given also the number of the " Weekly Record " containing the full-title entry and note. 4. A monthly "Class
Página 133 - be so indifferent to its own advantage as to make this first volume unremunerative."—The Nation, 1887. The Publishers Trade List Annual. This volume is indispensable to any one that has any interest in the purchase or sale of books. It contains : 1. An index to contributors and advertisers. 2. An index to special lines, giving important information as to where to
Página 79 - The fashion of binding books in cloth was, according to a writer in Notes and Queries, the " invention of Mr. RE Lawson, of Stanhope Street. Blackfriars, formerly in the employ of Mr. Charles Sully, and the first book bound in cloth was a manuscript volume of music, which was subsequently purchased by
Página 103 - B. A manual of the art of bookbinding, containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing
Página 82 - 4. In pasting in leaves or pictures the paste should not be tipped on with the finger, but with the brush on the pasting board, and with a piece of waste paper over the leaf or picture the required distance from the edge to be pasted, so that the paste is deposited evenly in a straight line.
Página 80 - but will resist far better than any other leather the corroding influences of heat, foul air and gas. But moroccos vary greatly in price, and are imitated in very many ways, so one must always watch, not only to get the best morocco, but to get morocco at all. It is said that
Página 82 - 27. On work and trimmings same as cloth work, except that the back and corners are not to be covered with cloth, but with straightgrained roan, carefully pared down on the edges and the sides with marble paper. There is to be no gilding on the back except author, title, and class number.