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Spanish Best Artistic Binding Award Winners Announced

September 25, 2015

Winners of the Premio a las Mejores Encuadernaciones Artísticas (an award presented for the best artistic binding by the government of Spain) were announced recently. The book of choice this year was a Spanish edition of the Marks of Identity (Señas de identidad) by an award winning author Juan Goytisolo. The book depicts Spanish society in the quarter of a century that follows the Spanish Civil War. Structure of the book is not a standard one, with whole sections entirely without punctuation. Continue reading →

Portuguese (Brazilian) version of iBookBinding.com

September 22, 2015

Okay, we start a new endeavor to the New World today. As I wrote before, we have plans to translate iBookBinding. First posts were published in Russian, and today we launch our Portuguese (Brazilian) version. Continue reading →

iBookBinding.com is Looking for New Team Members

August 29, 2015

As we wrote almost a month ago, we have lots of plans to write more about different bookbinding techniques not only in English but in other languages. First posts in Russian have already appeared on our web site (hope the community wasn’t startled). We would also proceed with translating the old posts. Continue reading →

The Day the Gutenberg Bible Binding was Finished

August 24, 2015

On this day, 24th of August, 1456, Johannes Gutenberg finished making the first book in Europe using movable type. Quires were printed in 1455 (or even before). There is a letter by Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (future pope Pie II) dated 12 March 1455, that suggests that pages were already printed. Continue reading →

Only One Day Left to Bid on 204 Lots of Bookbinding Tools and Equipment

August 20, 2015

A little more than 24 hours left to bid on 204 lots of bookbinding tools and equipment sold by Bindery Tools, LLC (Myerstown, PA). I myself like some of the items, but delivery overseas would cost more than tools themselves. Continue reading →

£42.5k – £350,000 – The most expensive books in Britain are being put up for sale!

May 14, 2015

Got a few hundred thousand pounds to spare and fancy a good read? Well then perhaps you’ll be interested to know that a selection of a few ultra-rare, first-edition, books are being put up for sale by UK rare book seller, Peter Harrington. Note that the cost of these books (unlike the article image featured image) are by no means small! Continue reading →

Yehuda Miklaf, An interesting read

November 10, 2013

5ESTSYG4CA7J Scanning the internet today I found the ‘Forward’ online had an article on Yehuda Miklaf (his website here). Continue reading →

Indian Bookbinding Scam, New Delhi

November 10, 2013

A large book binding scam has been bought to light in New Delhi, India involving the Municipal Corporation who supplies textbooks to school libraries. The Municipal Corporation made huge profits by charging extortionate rates for hardcover bookbinding. Over 1,200 schools now face a delay in receiving books. Continue reading →

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