The history of books and bookbinding aims to illustrate the evolution, perception and conservation of books, through time, describing different bookbinding techniques and it's importance in the book's persistence, the relathionship between binding, size, layout, content, cover. 

 

Books arises in the minds of young people especially, countless questions like: 

 

This book answers to all these questions.

 

It's content is based on the history of bookmaking, the morphology of books, bookbinding steps, techniques and tools. The book is structured in a way that the reader can easily follow all the steps required in bookmaking through text, images and illustrations. 

 

This is book no. 1, followed by 6 more exemples the perfect relathionship between content, type of binding, typography, layout, cover, phisiognomy. Stay tuned for more coming up next week Marco Casagrande.

 

Concept / Design: Andreea Mihaiu

Coordinator: Dinu Dumbravician

DTP: Aurelian Ardeleanu

Photo credits: Adrian Mihaiu

Text source: Florea Oprea, Manual de restaurare a cartii vechi si a documentelor grafice, MNLR, Bucharest, 2009 / Ilie Stanciu Jurnay in the world of books, short illustrated book, Bucharest, 1970 / Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, Editing - Design - Production

Proofreading: Andra Pavel, Mihai Popescu

Paper: 
Olin Smooth Cream 100 g interior
Olin Smooth Cream 250 g cover
Pop’Set Sky Blue 120 g inserts