#MiniatureMonday
#PatSweetSeries
[The Book Book] by Pat Sweet
To kick off this new school year, #MiniatureMonday will be doing a series focusing on the work of the book binder/designer/writer Pat Sweet in our collection. Her minis are a wonderful treasure trove that range from educational, to silly, to spooky and gothic, and we will explore them all, ending with the spooky ones just in time for Halloween!
Today's book is a wonderful resource to learn all the parts of a book.
As she explains: "This is a little book designed to explain little books, or rather, little case-bound books. Case-binding constructs the body of the book separately from the boards, and combines them at the end of the binding process. It's a quick and reasonably sturdy way of bookbinding, and almost all commercial hardbound books are produced like this. Every part of this book's binding is labeled, and I've left the back cover unglued to show the inner workings of the spine and hinges. The pages of the book itself contain publication data, each page labeled as itself, all the way from half-title to colophon. I've included everything I could think of that a book might possess... The book also has examples of things attached to books: a bookplate, an interior pocket containing a miniature Bo Press bookmark with a tiny tassel, a binder's ticket, a slipcase, and a vellum belly band."--Bo Press catalog.
You can learn more, or check out her catalog on her website: https://www.bopressminiaturebooks.com/
--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student