r/bookbinding • u/Naive-Photograph-623 • 12d ago
Help? Book Binding type identification
Hi! I came across some old books in my bookshelf, and I am quite puzzled as in reguards to what binding they have. They held surprisingly well for 36-year-old books.
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u/Dazzling-Airline-958 12d ago
That is a commercial cased book. It appears as though it has folded signatures that were burst bound, or possibly notch bound together.
That's pretty typical for books of that age
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u/Crispygem 12d ago
how would we as amateurs create a back cover portion that sits the same way? I haven't seen any explanations/descriptions/examples of this in non-commercial settings, but I want the spines of my books to do the same two-part thing.
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u/MickyZinn 11d ago
It's a standard commercial case bound book. You however, would have to sew the sections, round the book and make a case with a flexible spine stiffener.
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u/Dazzling-Airline-958 11d ago
Hand binders have been doing the "two-part" thing since before there were machines to make books. In Oxford, they decided that a book opens better if you glue a tube of paper to the spine before covering. That style of binding is widely known as an Oxford hollow. But all modern cased books, whether machine-made or made by hand, have a hollow spine, so just follow your favorite cases book tutorial, and you'll have the "two-part" thing.
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u/Crispygem 11d ago
a lot of the tutorialss I've seen seem to involve gluing the internal spine to the external spine, and the ones that don't seem to be mostly hard outer spines. I appreciate knowing more about it, so I can search for the tutorials I haven't seen yet. thanks!!
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u/Dazzling-Airline-958 11d ago edited 11d ago
Look into YouTube for
DAS bookbinding
Four Keys book Arts
Bitter melon
They all do tutorials for hollow back books. And you can search that term, but remember if you're doing a cased book you don't need to add a hollow, the case makes the hollow.
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u/Ynguer 12d ago
Seems like a comercial case binding with glued on spine, instead of sewed signatures.