More of My Little Open Book Covers presented by BB

Once upon a time during the Covid19 Lockdown of 2021 i began work upon a library with the plans safely held in my fancy,but as one knows books as small as those that i required for my scratch-built book shelves do not exist. Facades of book spines i soon found out would take longer to make, than making a single row of individuel book props ! So i began to print,cut and glue each one,after printing out hundreds of those that i liked best. However as the weeks of bussiness rolled away,i determined to create my own self style of joining pictures together while doing tutorials on the Internet. Last but not least here upon my run down crumbling Blog. Cutting out paper can lead one to an awfully big adventure,and even a time ahead to write about it. So onwards now to what now follows.

Common Domain

Period Piece Book Pictures; from the 1930's 1940's  1950's 1960's

Finding pictures of front cover books of yesteryear is rather easy,but after many weeks and months i finally found out my very own way of producing small scale fold over books for Sir Percy's Library.                                                       
As always i only show the way in a tutorial way to aid the arts.                                                        

  This section taken from the picture will form         the book spine!              

Pushing them all together formed the open ended book covers that i had a dire need to have. i then swipped them in one sweep and that was another design i coppied that could and would be used.

One 12th of a sheet to be printed out.

Coppied title is turned upright in order to create the books spine.

    

These will be thicker books upon their folding over.

In those longago days of youthful play we had chums i often wonder what they have today?

The first plate for further reduction looks ok,but the real proff will be in the finale printing.

              By now the process should be clear?

                 Being Bold is Beautiful!

There are lots of Alice Books on Line,but they tend to be in tattered and torn to pieces. So that was the real challenge to make do with what i could obtain, and then figure it all out to suit my needs.

The book spine above is the real one from the actual book.

Here i determined upon two possibilies.

Simple by weighing 500,then weighing the Lot, then doing the maths determine at present over 12,000 book props have been done and dusted.

Stay safe stay well,it ain't over till the fat lady sings.
BB