This once-beautiful 134 year old copy of Haydn’s dictionary of dates had fallen into sad disrepair. Both covers were completely detached, the spine was cracked, worn, and missing pieces, and at some point in its lifetime someone had attempted to reattach the covers with a few strips of tape, further marring the leather. I wanted […]
A client’s childhood Bible had a dry rotted leather cover and loose, insect damaged pages. They requested a new leather cover and minimal, stabilizing repairs to the pages so the text could be sewn back together.
Another traditional half binding sewn on tapes with a red pigskin spine and corners and lovely Chena River hand marbled paper on the front and back cover.
A paperback childhood favorite was falling apart; it found new life after being stripped down and rebound into a hardcover half-binding with a custom pen and ink hand-drawn cover design.