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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…

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Full leather laced on boards binding in Alum Tawed goat. Onlays of cut and stretched black leather, on front and back covers. Edge-to-edge doublures of black leather stretched over the fore edge corners to meet the onlays. Titled on the spine with…

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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…

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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…

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Full leather binding with leather doublures with inlays of blue leather, gilt paper, and cut outs revealing green paper below. Both cover leather, doublures, and inlays as bones have been treated to impart custom pattern textures. Structure is…

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Resewn on tapes, bound in full tan/grey morocco by Harmatan, raised bands, all edges gilt, leather joints with antique scarlet tea-chest paper doublures. Silk headbands. Tooled in gold with scarlet onlays on top cover, overlaid with black embossed…

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Full brown goat skin leather design binding with laced on boards and sewn endbands. Hand cut brass and book cloth border surround label. The inside front cover mimics the title with a tattooed leather label and bookcloth border, but the title is…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Full brown goatskin binding with onlays, titled in black.

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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…

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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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The binding structure is one that I have been playing around with for more than twenty years. It is simple, basic, and I love that the text can be removed at any time with no damage to the paper or binding. This is the most recent variation of this…

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The entire book will be bound in terra cotta Harmatan goat skin. Inlaid into a frame built of layers of binder's board, the front cover features a photograph taken and printed by the binder, applied to heavy matte paper, and covered with transparent…
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