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April 10, 2014A book that had seen better days. The brief was to rebind it whilst retaining the character of the book. A buff leather was chosen along with raised bands and blind tooling to the front and rear covers.
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July 26, 2013The manuscript came to me as loose pages and most of these pages needed extensive repair. It was a challenge that I looked forward to. The final result , complete with half leather binding was a great success.
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July 26, 2013Like many ‘pocket’ bibles and prayer books they become well worn through use and age, with the spine becoming detached and pages made loose. A relatively inexpensive repair has restored and renewed it back to use.
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January 28, 2013How to grow and produce your own food is a cherished and well used book, whose spine had become detached and corners worn. Now having been repaired it is ready to give many more happy hours of discovery.
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November 1, 2012Restoration of an 1800’s leather family bible.
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentDeep Sea Racing Craft, suffering from damp
October 31, 2012This bonded leather book was suffering from damp and mould and needed repairing and rebinding.
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentGeorge III Acts of Parliament
October 31, 2012This was a set of original pamphlets from 1784 that were first repaired and then bound into one hard cover, bookclothed book.
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October 31, 2012All 25 volumes were repaired and restored.
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October 31, 2012Often a small inexpensive repair is all that is needed. In this case the old sellotape was removed and the pages repaired.
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October 27, 2012A very tatty copy of Nomina Germanica from the 1940’s. It was repaired and fitted into a hard cover whilst conserving the original.
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