Interim cover
Interim binding is a term used in bookbinding . Until the middle of the 19th century, books were mostly delivered without a hard cover. You received an interim cover from the publisher, i.e. a flexible cover that was not intended for long-term use. It was mostly a brochure or an interim brochure , a loose cover (cover) made of simple paper or thin cardboard with information about the book, the so-called front page . Bookmark , leaf sage or the like are not present.
After the purchase, the buyer could have the book bound to his liking. As a rule, the layers of the book were only loosely stapled and attached to the cover with little glue so that they could be taken apart again without damage. As a rule, the interim binding was not trimmed in order to facilitate subsequent binding.
Identification of an interim binding
Interim bindings are often confused with brochures (but also with paperboard ). There is one fundamental difference: Today, a brochure is a definitive binding that is partly made of paper and partly of light cardboard (similar to a school exercise book). An interim binding is a temporary binding.
According to Henningsen, a second difference is that the interim brochure is stapled and without glue to make it easier to re-bind. In general, the wide gutter that makes it possible to bind the book is also noticeable .
Hellmuth Helwig defines the interim volume as follows: “Book block: hand stitching on tape, unsized; Cover: light cover, mostly cardboard; Coating: any; Back straight; Intent: double; Type of cut: untrimmed; Title: shield with color printing or hand-gilded; Comment: Protective cover for binding valuable reading later. "
Lore
Interim bindings are seldom handed down, as they were almost always removed from the book block when binding , they were only very rarely included. In libraries in particular , unprocessed book blocks are only found in exceptional cases, since binding was considered essential for the use of the book .
Examples
Cover with front cover
The cover is usually printed (almost) identically to the title page. In this example, you can see a reinforcement by an adhesive strip. If the book is to be bound and trimmed, the original cover can be glued or bound onto the new hard cover. Sometimes such interim volumes are also printed with advertisements on the back or have instructions to the bookbinder, for example about the arrangement of separately supplied panels with illustrations.
Unprinted envelope
These unprinted interim bindings, often made of light blue paper, were particularly common in the mid / late 18th to early 19th century until the beginning of industrial book production. The spine covered with the paper with the threads of the glued-in temporary stitching can be seen .
Loose book block
To distinguish it, an example of a loose book block that has no cover, i.e. no interim cover either. First page is the front page . The individual layers of the block on the spine are visible and not stuck over like an interim binding. The threads of a provisional stitching are visible.
literature
- Thorvald Henningsen: The manual for the bookbinder. 2nd edition. Hostettler et al. a., St. Gallen u. a. 1969.
- Hellmuth Helwig: The book cover. A short guide for public libraries, archival libraries, government agencies, parliaments, universities and research institutes. Zanders fine papers u. a., Bergisch Gladbach 1976.
- Helmut Hiller / Stephan Füssel: Dictionary of the book. 7., fundamentally revised. Ed., Frankfurt am Main 2006. ISBN 3-465-03495-3 . Note from the German Library: Belongs to the list of “Subject-specific reference works for the common authority file”. Citation form: Hiller. Relevance: important (www)
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hiller / Füssel: Dictionary of the book. 7., fundamentally revised. Frankfurt 2006 edition, p. 169.
- ↑ Thorvald Henningsen: The manual for the bookbinder. 2nd edition. Hostettler et al. a., St. Gallen u. a. 1969, p. 126.
- ↑ Hellmuth Helwig: The book cover. Zanders fine papers u. a., Bergisch Gladbach 1976, p. 23.