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Full leather binding sewn on five cords with boards laced-in and edge-to-edge hinged leather doublures. Undyed calfskin, selected for its smoothness. The calfskin is hand dyed in multiple layers, using spirit and aniline pigments. The palette is…

Full leather binding of red goat skin sewn on stubs with laced on boards. Onlays of painted leather that continue onto the assembled paper paste downs. Sued flyleaves, handsewn silk endbands, untitled. Bound 2020.

Text was designed to document…

The book is covered with a stone-washed, black leather dustcover with abalone shell, decorative onlays and hand-cut leather titling. The main book cover is full goatskin, sewn-on-tape binding with abalone shell, leather and deer parchment onlays. The…

Bradel binding. Boards and spine covered in wallpaper with décor of swatches of wallpaper and fabric samples all designed by Peggy Angus. Trade book disbound and sections guarded with Japanese tissue, bookblock sewn on individual stubs, guards and…

If one was to visit Bernard Middleton's bindery in the 1970s, when this text was published, it would not have been unusual to find a cat or two curled up in a corner. Proposed binding to be bound in brown Hewit goatskin in a laced-on boards binding…

Bound in two colors of gray Hewit and Harmatan goatskin leathers in a laminate case. Decorated with three fish designs made with stamped, cut foils. Paste papers by the binder. Blind tooling and a silver stamped title.

Bound in full brown goat skin with gold tooling to acknowledge the look of older books. To add a more contemporary feel, two images based on illustrations from the book will be done with back-pared onlays and leather line onlays. Edges to be sponge…

Bound in full terracotta goatskin with back-pared black and green onlays and leather line onlays. Cover images based on one of the illustrations by Rockwell Kent in the text. Top edge decorated with copper paint and a hand sewn three color silk…

Full red goatskin leather fine binding sewn on German tapes, laced into boards. The top edge decorated in alternating sections of gold and palladium prior to sewing. Double-core silk headbands. Pastedowns and flyleaves of a "Dutch curl" marbled…

Full goatskin leather binding with sewn-in leather hinge and handmade flax paper flyleaf which has the look of parchment. Sewn on five German woven tapes with linen thread, the edges were gilt "in the rough" without trimming, and the tapes were laced…

Tan calfskin with inlaid calf lettering. Flyleaves and doublures of marbled paper. Brown roma endpapers with calf hinges. Hand sewn double core headbands with brown, tan and white silk. Top edge colored brown with acrylics. To be housed in a linen…

This classic science fiction novel concerns the survival of knowledge through books in a post-apocalyptic world. The binding references use of atomic weapons and the blueprints described in the story. The book is bound in full French chagrin dark…

Full goatskin binding with large onlay across binding, laser cut shapes representing various tools used in bookbinding and restoration, and gold-tooled borders for onlays. This proposal for The Restoration of Leather Bindings reflects the subject of…

Full brown goatskin binding with onlays, titled in black.

Bound in full brown goatskin using traditional hand embroidery techniques in gilt thread to imitate a historical gilt panel design. Line border on outer panel and along board edges are hand tooled and gilt. Spine decorated with mix of embroidered and…

French style binding with laced-in boards. Bound in bois de rose buffalo skin with back-pared onlays of goat and buffalo. Onlays embellished with hand-embroidered details using cotton embroidery floss. Hand painted border on front board in golden…

The hand tooling along the colored leather strips represent traditional lacing-on of boards and Bernard Middleton's approach to design expressed in his Recollections: A Life in Bookbinding. (This sample is only a representation of the decorative…
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