Galleries
Restoration of a Russian BibleThese pictures show some of the stages of a large reback on a book bound in full leather on oak boards. |
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Tudor BindingShowing the binding of a vellum manuscript into a full leather binding on oak boards. The customer wanted the book to be as close a reproduction of a 16th century binding as I could produce. |
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Cary's English AtlasShowing an 18th century atlas bound in half leather, in a style contemporary to the book. |
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Wars in RomeThis is a book of 1702 that I rebound in full leather. I photographed most of the processes involved for use in a presentation my father gave in 2005. Unfortunately I don't have the last images in the series showing the tooling etc. |
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Molls AtlasShowing some stages in restoring a very damaged 18th century quarter leather binding, using marble paper contemporary with the book. |
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Bindings of InterestThese are some photos of work completed over the last few years. |
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RebacksRebacking is the process of rebinding a book with a new spine, re-using the original boards, and re-laying the original spine if possible. These are a some examples of books I've rebacked. |
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Page RepairsThese are some pictures of pages repaired using Japanese repairing tissue. |
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BoxesThese pictures show some of the boxes, slip cases, and display cases I've made. |