A19th Century Bookbinding Studio,
The same tools and machines are used today in a functional bindery.
  Click on the different binders for explanation of the tasks performed.
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From a plate in " Handbuch der Wohlgewerklichen Künste" (Schreiber).
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Note that the position of the man plowing is the same as the plower in "Was willst du werden",  written and illustrated by Oscar Pletsch in 1862.

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The links on the image are to:
Bookbinding and the Conservation of books
A Dictionary of Descriptive
Terminology

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Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington Drawings by Margaret R. Brown



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