so I think the difference between Bookbinding and Book Repair is that in Conservation/Repair, the "canonical" materials of the book are important, you want to add and remove as little as possible (with reversible methods, as well, preferably) to return the book to an acceptable state, maintaining the original "artwork". But in normal bookbinding, it's more like creating a NEW artwork. if you just want to rebind a book and don't care about the original binding, you can simply destroy it and make a new one, but that's unacceptable in conservation

very informative as well as inspiring…. why Japanese paper? 🧐

I keep wondering where everyone finds these mini books. Because I love mini books all about the size she has

This was wonderful!! It gave me a deeper understanding of how my antique books were made and a much deeper appreciation for hand printed books as a whole. Thank you!

Will be handy when the apocolypse comes around... Still going strong for many years.

"Otto was very passionate about teaching... so 'passionate' that he destroyed manuscripts for money, for profit, for a few quid, which MAY have been where his REAL passion lay. Who can say for sure, eh."

This is amazing

You didn’t mention the imprint on the black ink stick which appears to be in Chinese character. What dies it say?

188 - what on earth is so special about that number?

Hint: the press should be inked up before you place the forme onto the press. By doing it the way shown in the video, the uneven blobbiness of the unrolled-out ink goes onto the forme and results in uneven inking.

Great video; however, at about 12.09 the case used for setting has been 'laid' with the face of the type pointing to the left - better practice is to lay the characters pointing right, so that when setting, the type goes straight into the stick the correct way round.

Years ago we found that mice love chewing the backbone of phonebooks & magazines. Any books pasted with animal glue or fish gel were particularly edible. Binding is a craft that should be respected & passed on. My total respect sir.

Beautiful watercolor box. Thank you

I'm an artist that does bookbinding, creating one-of-a-kind books. I've rebound a few and archival repairs. Patience and devotion are paramount. 😂 📚 ❤

Thank you for the explanation. I have never used a proof press, just several different letterpresses. I'm glad to see you're still teaching this technology. It's very satisfying.

Thank you for sharing this!

It's really interesting to see how pristine all the cakes look - but also kind of sad when you think about it. This box was given to someone as a special reward and then likely never used. A great find for historians though.

If the verbiage in the story you were printing required more space for type than the chase allowed, I suppose you could possibly truncate the story somewhat just to get the main points across OR…. CUT TO THE CHASE…. Oops, that term wasn’t used until silent movies in the 1900’s Probably would have more sense to most folks except…in silent movies nobody cared about the story when they could just watch the cops, robbers, cowboys, and Indians chasing each other around.

Bookbinding is an art. The person needs to be well educated in the work, have patience and a great respect for the world of books. I would like to watch this gentleman bind a needy book.

Don is very patient and generous with answering all these bookbinding a repair questions!

Does the library have a digital scan of this book? Or are you familiar with a digital scan of this book?

Small Minerva.

Very grateful for you sharing your expertise. Thank you for the great video!

I find this skill and the expertise and knowledge of this absolutely fascinating. If I could choose a skill to indulge in for life this would be it ! I so admire and envy this knowledge and skill and expertise ! Alas, I have a large library of such books which I have read and collected all of my adult life. My library is now quite enormous, but I have some old sets where the late 17th century books are in very poor condition. I wonder what the process is for assessing a book to get a basic estimate of having a rare book fixed by someone with such skill as his Gentleman has. Is it unaffordium? Asking from Australia.

Terrible print quality. This is the trouble when using loose-type; they all wear out at varying degrees.

Best video on the subject! Thank you!

This video is incredibly concice and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for making and sharing it.

Great video. Congratulations

Great video, most enjoyable. Thank you very much for this full break down "start to finish process".

Great to listen to such a knowledgeable person. Thank you.

Do you know anything about the Heidelberg fragment which contains parts of the Book of Acts and James?

thanks for sharing! I never knew how small the clay tablet were haha

A little late to the part - great video, will help me with my Adana as well. May I ask where you got that sweet small type cabinet? :) Thanks!

Super interesting thanks a lot 🙏

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Has anyone tried to activate the blocks with water? If so, are the paints still usable?

I have no idea how I ended up here with you bookreaders since i'm not one, but hey, sheers ! just some guy whose morbidly curious about everything in life. good day :)

best video on letterpress ever!!! take a bow guys, as we say here in ireland "fair playd to ye"

Amazing!

God I loved this video......

Hopefully these skills are being passed on.

Hi! I've just been given a 5x3 Adana model by my grandad and wish to get it up and running again. Is there any way of speaking to you guys about the parts I need and the sizes etc? It would be massively appreciated :) I know I need rollers and the metal rectangle which keeps all the type together... Thanks.

Great video! I Thoroughly Enjoyed your Introductory Walkthrough of the Letterpress Process! Question: Where are you getting the statistic 240 sheets per hour from? As far as my understanding allows, 60 - 100 impressions per hour was considered good work. If you're counting quarto impressions then yes, 60 x 4 to accomplish 240 printed pages is an achievable hourly goal for a team. As for 240 unique impressions, I can't imagine that working out but I'm really interested to know where you found your statistic. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Keep up the brilliant work!

This was wonderful, what a great man.

it is a Palintangan manuscript from Bali, a kind of description of the star symbol in Balinese culture.

I have one of these pages. Theres also a watermark in the center of initials and what appears to be a Crest. And has Otto Eges name on the back. It was tucked behind an old painting. Someone drew on the back of it, what appears to be a portion of a table. It's odd. But it's a very large piece of parchment

So do you remove the fragments from the binding? I am a book collector, and I try to preserve the connection between a binding and the fragment, instead of splitting them up. Do you have a policy for that as a library?

Great explanations from someone who knows...informative video. Noble craft in contact with books, knowledge and art. Load of thanksss

Amazing video! I’m in love with bookbinding and to see someone so professional and experienced talking like this, makes me emotional.

What a beautiful video. I think not only the sounds of the thread going through but also the smell of the old books you get to handle and live around must be delightful.