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Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 4:26 pm
by Fredline
Re: Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 4:49 pm
by Bob Brookes
Here is the 'standard' version.
Re: Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 4:53 pm
by Jardine
It looks like it has been rebound into a hard cover.
Best regards
Mem
Re: Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 5:09 pm
by Fredline
There is also standard hardback copy with pictorial front and back covers. Why would you rebind such an inferior edition of Bernard Venables work?
Re: Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:01 am
by Jardine
It may be that it was rebound because it had become detached from its cover, who knows?
I've seen lots of rebound books and have a few in my art library.
Magazines are also bound in volumes which is actually quite handy, I may do it with some of my fishing or Creel magazines.
Best regards
Mem
Re: Rare Mr Crabtree book???
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:31 am
by Nobby
I have no way of knowing if this is the case here, but often County Libraries would have paperback books rebound as hardbacks so that they might last a few years of lending. I have a couple of copies of a homebrewing book here so re-bound and I know for certain that the book in question was never offered as a hardback.
The cover design is apparently created by oils that repel one another. A bit of a lost art nowadays, it's a fine way of making a book last through the decades. I expect there are a few 'bookbinders' still out there but not many in this digital age.