Hand Bookbinding

Hand BookbindingBefore the advent of modern mass production methods, books were bound by hand to remarkably high standards of quality. Beautiful and durable, they appealed to book lovers who appreciated not only a book's content but also the quality and craftsmanship of its binding. Unfortunately, the introduction of machine binding methods, while making books widely available at reasonable prices, also largely curtailed the art and craft of making fine books by

each meticulously rendered from embellishments on Indian blankets

Commissioned at the end of the eighteenth century by famed art collector and author Thomas Hope

Kains revised Five Acres and Independence

perhaps because they are unsure which parts of the subject belong to the physicist and which belong to the mathematician

monetary policies

Greenan has fashioned an excursion in to the macabre that is in a class by itself

master games

Honest Sid: Memoir of a Gambling Man

but sustains it longer than any other single artist was able to do

the lovely Gothic chapel of Old Jefferson College

Collectors have paid many thousands of dollars for one of Stradivari's violins

from the rawest beginner to the most practiced expert