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First Editions Fleming, Hemingway, Greene, Hans Andersen Bangkok Rare Books
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| Bangkok Books talk for Beginners. |
Thinking of starting your own collection of 1st Edition Rare Books ?
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| Bangkok Rare Books Glossary of Modern First Editions : First Edition : Edition : Impression : State |
Modern First Editions; Generally recognized as American English literature dating from around the 1890's and has many associate and sub terms. First Edition; Roughly speaking meaning the first appearance of a book between its own covers from one setting of type. Edition; The total number of copies of a book printed at any time from one setting of type. Impression; The total number of copies of a book printed at one time from one setting of type. State; Of text or illustration, indicating a variant appearance of a page resulting from alteration made during the printing process.
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| Principal Types of Illustration Processes used for Illustrated Rare Books |
THE RELIEF PROCESS: {a} Woodcut: The earliest type of illustration born at the end of the 14th century, basically a drawing using a knife to cut into a block of smooth wood cut along the grain. {b} Wood-Engraving: Arriving in the 18th century and similar to a woodcut but drawing into a block of hard wood cut across the grain making it less likely to splinter and using a burin ( a steel rod ) rather than a knife allowing for greater delicacy in the design. INTAGLIO: {a} Engraving: Using a burin ( a steel rod with a sharp tip) to cut designs into copper or steel plate, originating from Italy and the Germanic countries in the 15th century, using copper plate until around 1820 when steel was introduced as well for its durability over the softer copper plate. {b} Etching: Using acids instead of tools for drawing designs on metal plate, used extensively through the 20th century. PLANOGRAPHIC: Lithograph: Appearing at the end of the 19th century, an image drawn directly onto stone or metal plate using techniques involving water, grease, ink, gum arabic, lithographic chalk etc., Invented by Aloys Senefelder in 1798. * For an example of Planographic see Bangkok Books page {B}: Bennett, Arnold. (E. McKnight Kauffer, illustrated by). Venus Rising From The Sea. For more detailed information we recommend Millar's Collecting Modern Books by Catherine Porter and John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors
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| Some Technical Terms for used & rare Book Collectors |
Armorial: Either a book-plate incorporating the owner's coat of arms or of a binding tooled in gilt of a coat of arms. Buckram : A washable & durable cloth made material. Dentelle : French term meaning lace and describing a lacy border usually on the inside of the cover of a book. Doublure : French for lining and meaning the inside cover or paste-down is of leather not paper and most often than not decorated. Foxed/Foxing : A chemical reaction to paper causing brown or yellow spots, damp being a major contributor to foxing. Impression : The term used to describe the number of copies of an edition printed at one time or, of which edition. Inlaid & Onlays : Inlaid = a leather binding with areas cut into the main skin then inserted with coloured leather to produce a decoration. Onlays = adding coloured leather to the main skin to produce a raised decoration. Limited Edition : An edition in which a stated number of copies was printed. Marbled : Of paper and used mainly for endpapers and edges also for covering the sides of half or quarter bound books. Morocco : A fine quality leather made from goat skin suitable for dying in strong bright colours, originating from Islamic Countries but now widely available from all over the world. Morocco can be treated in various ways, and can be described as Levant, Niger, Hard-Grain, Straight-Grain and Crushed Morocco. Offset : The staining from a printed page to an adjacent page from the ink in the text, but most commonly from an engraved plate to the adjacent page. {thus the use of tissue guards}. Pointille : French term for dotted, the term used to describe a dotted effect on a leather binding from gilt tooling. Tail-Piece : An ornamental decoration used at the end of a chapter or verse. Unopened : The folds of the book leaves still joined together at the fore-edge. Vignette : A small decorative design used on a title page or for chapter headings & tail pieces.
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| A Short Essay on Paper |
For the person with a general interest in books, a basic knowledge of the history of paper, and its methods of manufacture is perhaps not essential, but is certainly useful to an understanding of the book as a whole. As with so much else in the field of printing, the earliest records of paper-making are to be found in China, as the knowledge of paper-making traveled westwards, often by conquest, the Arabs were quick to perceive the advantages over papyrus, not least because they already cultivated flax in great quantities and this crop made an ideal raw material. By the end of the eighth century A.D. paper-mills had been established at several sites in the Middle East, including Baghdad, by the end of the twelfth century some 400 mills are recorded in Morocco at Fez. While paper had been imported into Europe through such ports as Venice from an early date, its actual manufacture in Europe did not begin until the twelfth or thirteenth century. Again, the introduction was the result of conquest, this time the Arab's conquest of Spain. As they settled in Spain, the Arabs brought with them an entire civilization, which included the art of paper-making. From Spain, knowledge of the process slowly spread into the rest of Europe, with the first recorded paper-mill outside Spain being established in Italy about 1268 using Parchment. Parchment is the inner skin of the hide which has been split, Its durability and smooth surface made it the ideal material, among other things, for the production of illuminated manuscripts. With the demand for paper increasing through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the authorities often had to enact laws to regulate the collection of old rags, such was the money to be had out of supplying paper mills, which is why the paper of the eighteenth century books and earlier often appears fresher and more wholesome than that of books of recent date. Rags are still occasionally used today to produce the highest quality paper, which is known as Rag Paper. Wove Paper is paper manufactured using a mould in which wires have been woven so close together in a manner so fine as to leave no impression in the finished paper. The Birmingham printer, John Baskerville, is credited with the invention of Wove Paper, his interest was in producing fine editions and he found existing papers to coarse for his purposes. Baskerville invented the new technique around the middle of the eighteenth century but is was not until the early nineteenth century that it came into general use, from then on, almost all paper used in ordinary books was of the wove sort. The manufacturers of wove paper often described it as Vellum as a tribute to its smooth and glossy surfaces, not like Vellum proper (animal skin). Even today a few books are printed on paper described as Japanese Vellum. In French it is known as Velin.
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