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Bookbinder's workshop in Hendrik de Haas, "De Boekbinder", Dordrecht 1806

Haas, Hendrik de (auteur/author)
Blussé en zoon, A. (uitgever/publisher)
year: 1806

type: prent
print
detail: nee
dimensions: 16,3 x 19,5 cm.
related terms: boekbinden binderijen
period: 19e eeuw
classification:
F: Bindkunst

contents: This print shows a bookbinder's workshop with the four 'principal and most relevant parts of the art': pounding with a mallet on the gatherings to make them firm and compact; trimming: a special knife (the 'shaving knife') is drawn along the text block to trim the pages; the sewing of the gatherings, and finally the burnishing: working the leather and smoothing it. Behind the burnishing figure (the master of the workshop) hangs a tooling cabinet. The well-dressed boy is taking a book to a client. The lower half of the print shows some instruments necessary for bookbinding such as a pair of scissors, a knife, sewing things, glue and a lying press.

origineel:
source: Haas, Hendrik de. - De Boekbinder; of volledige beschrijving van al het gene wat tot deze konst betrekking heeft. - Dordrecht: A. Blussé en zoon, 1806, pl. I
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag BAND BDTE 02HV

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