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My newest (oldest?) book...

Sherlock77

Sherlock77

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Flea market on the weekend, I almost shouldn't go sometimes...

A rather interesting book caught my eye, "The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard", copyright 1927, the price was decent, I knocked $30 down to $20

More about Elbert - https://study.com/academy/lesson/elbert-hubbard-biography-books-quotes.html

It's not a book I was looking for, it wasn't "too" expensive so took a chance on it... Apparently Mr. Elbert Hubbard was a little bit of a philosopher and thinker, he actually died in 1915... A couple photos of course, and I will probably read through it...

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I love a lot of the artistry that went in to making books back in that time. I was a printer so that sort of history meant a lot to me. Not just the artistry on the pages but also the different methods of the book binding and the skills that so many people had back then. Even if you disagree with the content a lot of books were works of art back then.
 
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I love a lot of the artistry that went in to making books back in that time. I was a printer so that sort of history meant a lot to me. Not just the artistry on the pages but also the different methods of the book binding and the skills that so many people had back then. Even if you disagree with the content a lot of books were works of art back then.
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They do look good on a bookshelf, I'll agree...
 
As a Printer I had to learn several different trades. Bookbinders and guillotine operators were separate trades in their own right but a printer had to learn all of these as well as photography and darkroom work and a little metallurgy as well. So I spent my time on big industrial folding machines, and big sewing machines, and working with the hot glue collating sections of books and sticking them all together, then making the outer cover and glueing that on as well. I had to know every step of every process.

Your book seems to be a simpler method of two punched holes and a ribbon through them, I've never seen that in a commercial product before. Although I can be a bit critical where perhaps it might not be deserved I still love old books.
 
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As a Printer I had to learn several different trades. Bookbinders and guillotine operators were separate trades in their own right but a printer had to learn all of these as well as photography and darkroom work and a little metallurgy as well. So I spent my time on big industrial folding machines, and big sewing machines, and working with the hot glue collating sections of books and sticking them all together, then making the outer cover and glueing that on as well. I had to know every step of every process.

Your book seems to be a simpler method of two punched holes and a ribbon through them, I've never seen that in a commercial product before. Although I can be a bit critical where perhaps it might not be deserved I still love old books.
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I don't think this book was by a major publisher, and probably a limited run only...
 
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I don't think this book was by a major publisher, and probably a limited run only...
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That sort of makes it more special, think of the work that went in to that book. Someone manually picked up a piece of printed cloth and glued that to a large piece of cardboard that the printer had already put 4 creases in to for them. They had to hand collate all the individual pages together, then guillotine them to the same size and attach the hand made cover. Even if the binding itself seems simple the amount of handcraft that went in to making it is not.

[Edit] For the crease between front cover and spine (probably same at the back) they have cut the backing cardboard and then rejoined the two pieces on the inside of the book using bookbinder's tape, very similar to gaffer tape, deliberately leaving a small but significant gap to make a type of hinge. Then with that flopping around all over the place they've glued the cloth cover to the card. It took a lot of skill and practice to make every book look exactly the same as all the others.
 
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Sherlock77 said:
Flea market on the weekend, I almost shouldn't go sometimes...

A rather interesting book caught my eye, "The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard", copyright 1927, the price was decent, I knocked $30 down to $20

More about Elbert - https://study.com/academy/lesson/elbert-hubbard-biography-books-quotes.html

It's not a book I was looking for, it wasn't "too" expensive so took a chance on it... Apparently Mr. Elbert Hubbard was a little bit of a philosopher and thinker, he actually died in 1915... A couple photos of course, and I will probably read through it...

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I think that you bought that from a friend of mine.
 
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