JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES, Sam'l Johnson/J.Boswell, London, 1785 2nd ed

Description: The JOURNAL of A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES, with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., By James Boswell, Esq. London, 1785 Second Edition. 1785 Second (corrected) Edition, Frontispiece missing. Rebinding recommended, in poor condition, with some staining on first fifty pages, but all 535 text pages are intact. A classic work, in a collectible early rare edition. Compare with copy listed on Abe Books for $800. Insured Shipping. Suitable for rebinding. Many of our books, inherited from the library of a collector from the 1950's were selected for him by an English antiquarian seller and, following his death, were stored in a house in Oaxaca, Mexico for many decades. The condition of these rare volumes vary from good, to acceptable, to fair and poor, the latter being candidates for rebinding. Many of the titles you will find offered here by Rara Libris, NYC deserve a new life as valuable items in collections, and are worthy of restoration. New listings every week; follow us. Bookbinding as a handcraft: It's quite inexpensive and affordable: Bookbinding is a very agreeable hobby. You don't need expensive equipment, and the material is fairly affordable too. Of course, as you start getting into different kinds of materials, you can spend on more expensive supplies, such as leather, or wood, or high quality paper. You can learn it completely at home: Bookbinding can be learned entirely at home. You can order all the necessary tools online. You can find a lot of materials you need at home. It is very easy to get started, and perfect in an environment where you have to be indoors.There are lots of great tutorials online: You don?t really need an instructor for learning bookbinding. There are enough videos and tutorials online to guide you along the way. Here?s my post on how you can get started with learning bookbinding.You don?t need any fancy or complex equipment as a beginner: It can be challenging if your hobby needs some special tooling or machinery that is hard to come by. This is not the case in bookbinding, unless you want to start a bookbinding business! In fact, this video from Peg & Awl does a great job of explaining how you can bind books, by repurposing common household items as your bookbinding tools.Book binding might seem simple from the outside ? after all, how hard can it be to make a notebook? But as with any other craft, as you start getting into it, you start to realize the number of small little details that go into making a high quality, long lasting, and beautiful book. And if you start to think about a book?s binding as an art form in and of itself, there is literally no end to what you can do. As long as the restoration work follows certain guidelines for materials, processes, and pays attention to the style of the original binding, restorations will almost always increase the value of the book., because we are taking the book from a damaged situation to one where it can be used again. Professional book binders can match the original material of a binding with a substantially similar or complimentary material, keeping the majority of the original binding material. Often costing less than a full rebinding, rebacking preserves the majority of the original book material. The spine label can often be removed from the original spine strip and attached to the new spine to further preserve as much of the book?s originality as possible.

Price: 79 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2025-02-08T04:58:58.000Z

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