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1772 Book of Naval Regulations

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A 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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Manuscript binding

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The 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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Book of Common Prayer & Hymns

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Like 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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Gardening Book

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How 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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1800’s Bible Restoration

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Restoration of an 1800’s leather family bible.

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Deep Sea Racing Craft, suffering from damp

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This bonded leather book was suffering from damp and mould and needed repairing and rebinding.

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George III Acts of Parliament

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This 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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25 Volumes of Archeologica

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All 25 volumes were repaired and restored.

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, a small repair

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Often 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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Nomina Germanica

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A 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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