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  @theredbaron51173 күн бұрын

  "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."

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  @QuillyM17 күн бұрын

  This is amazing

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  @tyham726Ай бұрын

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

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  @kjbirby2 ай бұрын

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

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  @kjbirby2 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @kjbirby2 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @reneebarger51942 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @laceyjane42852 ай бұрын

  Beautiful watercolor box. Thank you

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  @drawingmomentum2 ай бұрын

  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. 😂 📚 ❤

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  @dchristy563 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @maarya_s4 ай бұрын

  Thank you for sharing this!

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  @nuitetoilee4 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @billm.26774 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @dlebreton78884 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @DebKiwi5 ай бұрын

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

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  @ianmarlowe39365 ай бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary4 ай бұрын

  Feel free to reach out to our acting College Librarian for more information about this text! kmiddleton (at) masseycollege (dot) ca

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  @robfurnari15 ай бұрын

  Small Minerva.

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  @LunteBooks5 ай бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary5 ай бұрын

  Thank you for watching!

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  @tjsurname1195 ай бұрын

  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.

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary5 ай бұрын

  find a local rare book store and you'll find that a lot of owners are also appraisers (at least in Canada). They would assess its value in price. As for bookbinding try looking for binders or people offering any kind of classes in the book arts in the area as they might know someone who can repair rare books (and rare book libraries at the universities nearby). In Canada at least it is paid per hour of work but I'm sure if you find someone nearby you can negotiate something. Best of luck with your library and thank you for watching and your comment!

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  @tjsurname1195 ай бұрын

  @@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary ❤ 🙏 Thank you and GOD Bless you. Much appreciation from Australia to Canada.

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  @redblade81606 ай бұрын

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

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  6 ай бұрын

  Best video on the subject! Thank you!

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  @CaseFace9816 ай бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary6 ай бұрын

  glad it helped!

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  @merce4146 ай бұрын

  Great video. Congratulations

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  @francoisjarzabek14127 ай бұрын

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

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  @jam44417 ай бұрын

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

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  @handsomewaluigi86207 ай бұрын

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

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  @rudolfglasnak89388 ай бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary8 ай бұрын

  it's very fragile! very scared of dropping it sometimes!

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  @marlainey8 ай бұрын

  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!

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary8 ай бұрын

  this video was filmed by a previous employee in his home. I don't know where the cabinet is from. I'm glad the content was useful. Best of luck with the Adana!

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  @infernoleviathan88689 ай бұрын

  Super interesting thanks a lot 🙏

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  @eunjihwang12489 ай бұрын

  북바인딩 하고 싶으세요?

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  @sittingstill35789 ай бұрын

  This Korean KZreadr offers classes in bookbinding in the Seoul area. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmaOx66EfbbLetI.htmlsi=Bu8FT5kAORHwxqGC

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  @JadeScarlett11 ай бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary11 ай бұрын

  That's a good question. I wondered if they would work well. We have not activated the blocks as we are trying to preserve it as is for as long as possible. At this moment it's considered a historical artifact in our collection

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  @JadeScarlett11 ай бұрын

  @@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary I had a feeling that was the case. But here's an idea - how about creating a fundraising event, perhaps, where a renowned watercolor artist would create a painting using the set, minimally of course, perhaps loading the brush on the back side of the cakes to avoid damaging the stamped logo. It could be a small painting so only the slightest bit of color would be needed. With good marketing, this could raise interest, hopefully from the people with deep pockets, to write fat checks to the library 😀. Of course, bonus if the event is live-streamed on KZread. Just a thought ☺

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  @sjain81116 ай бұрын

  there are nicely printed stamps of colour names & logo on the pigments, wouldn’t want to damage those

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  @anaskun3645 Жыл бұрын

  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 :)

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  @sjain81116 ай бұрын

  well time to start reading, eh?

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  @karancoyne7719 Жыл бұрын

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

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  @alexandermrkich8734 Жыл бұрын

  Amazing!

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  @jamestom2510 Жыл бұрын

  God I loved this video......

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  @jintsfan Жыл бұрын

  Hopefully these skills are being passed on.

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  @finnscott5757 Жыл бұрын

  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.

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  @redblade81606 ай бұрын

  @finnscott5757. The "metal rectangle" as you call it, is called a "chase". lol.

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  @FriarsMillPress Жыл бұрын

  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!

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  @bgh8904 Жыл бұрын

  This was wonderful, what a great man.

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  @Taruna_DJ Жыл бұрын

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

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  @GVGR11B Жыл бұрын

  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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Жыл бұрын

  That is amazing! I love hearing stories about how some MS fragments are found. Thank you for sharing that! Treasure it!

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  @theredbaron51173 күн бұрын

  That is the TRUE legacy of Otto Ege i.e. his 'passion for teaching and spreading knowledge' has led to the destruction and desecration of ancient parchments. The man was a money-hungry charlatan and those who celebrate him are doomed to wallow in their ignorance.

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  @ExLibrisBookCollector Жыл бұрын

  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?

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Жыл бұрын

  As a library we receive these donations AS manuscript fragments already detached by their previous owners. If a book would come in with fragments used as wastepaper or endpapers we wouldn't detach them. All the ones from the video came in to us from various people who had owned them as fragments (some without any context or background)

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  @mohamadyasinowadally8564 Жыл бұрын

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

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  @mohamadyasinowadally8564 Жыл бұрын

  I really get stuck with gold tooling on leather cover..tried egg whites..and gold leaf but dont get great results...anyway thank u for. Greeting from Mauritius..wish u merry christmas ans good days ahead.

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  @RafaelToscano Жыл бұрын

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

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Жыл бұрын

  That's amazing. We're glad you enjoyed the video and that bookbinding brings joy in your life as well

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  @YaelSharon3410 Жыл бұрын

  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.

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Жыл бұрын

  It's certainly beautiful and worthy of preservation! Thank you for your thoughtful comment

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  @megsup167 Жыл бұрын

  ♥️

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  @madebylora Жыл бұрын

  I’ve been making some books and also repaired a couple (for the repairs, I’m mostly making it up as I go) so it’s interesting to see someone who knows what they are doing!!!!

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  @headleycaryer3795 Жыл бұрын

  As compositor since 1951 it is nice to see a video that has almost everything correct!

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  @jamespeters5913 Жыл бұрын

  Very interesting !!

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  @vincenzoselli8505 Жыл бұрын

  i'm just curious. Why there are still these kind of printing machines inside the University? Is that part of a Art program? Is that just a demostation or are you realy printing projects for the School? It look like somenthing for Hystory class or? I'm italian sorry for my english.

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  @TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Жыл бұрын

  We specialize in this library on the history of printing. Our College Printer is both an artist and printing expert and over the years we've accumulated many printing presses. We use the space for students to practice printing and learn history by making things for contemporary events, or for their projects. Our book collection also focuses on printing history for the most part.

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  @vincenzoselli8505 Жыл бұрын

  @@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Thank you very much for your answer that makes a lot of sense now! Great job congratulations!