I found this broken down beauty in a used bookstore just crying out for restoration and couldn’t resist picking it up for my personal collection. 145 years old, this huge Bible had seen a lot of wear and tear. Somewhere in the past century it migrated through the midwest, picking up newspaper clippings and losing […]
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.
Another gorgeous leather book just waiting for its former beauty to be restored, this 163 year old binding of the Pilgrim’s Progress was mostly suffering from typical problems: deteriorated leather, worn joints, cracked inner hinges and bumped corners. With some leather restoration, new period-appropriate endsheets, and strengthened corners, the book looks beautiful while still gracefully […]
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 traditional fine binding sewn on tapes with goatskin and marbled paper covers.
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.