Binding Arrangement. Book Binding & Conservation Services

And a big pre-Victorian book full of plates of Durham, now with a new leather spine.

And beforehand

Little green Victorian bible with a new leather spine.

And ‘after’, with new gold -tooled spine and label.

HOYLE’S GAMES 1760-1 before conservation.

Completed tail-band under new calf leather spine.

Sewing new headbands on Hoyle’s Games; the same colour as the original missing ones.

Sewing up Mr Hoyle’s Games of Whist, Quadrillions, Piquet Chess and Back-Gammon 1760-1

Interior of box.

Koran or Quran, now in a new protective clam shell box.

!8th century Koran in need of housing.

STOWE ( see below) before treatment.

STOWE HOUSE 1773 After washing, de-acidifying the pages and fold out maps, resewing, re-backing in new calf leather and gold tooling the spine in exactly the same way that it was originally tooled.

'Confectionary' 1790 (see previous photo below) before treatment.

Now fully bound in calf leather and gold tooled spine.

1790 “Confectionary” book (including a lot of ice cream recipes), starting to look like a book again, with new headbands and re-sewn onto cords which were laced into new boards.

After careful repair with coloured hand -made Japanese paper.