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I Built a Massive Leather Spellbook That Weighs 50 Pounds

I crafted a giant leatherbound spellbook using traditional bookbinding techniques. With huge pages and a sturdy leather cover ...
The New York Times

A Bookbinder Who Sets the Stage for Literary Revels

Dominic Riley has spent decades designing and creating new covers for special volumes, and teaching others how to do it, too. Dominic Riley, at work in his studio in England, has been binding books ...
SFGate

Books that are defined by their covers / Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding

Few items in the home are as ubiquitous, and as unexamined, as the bindings around our books. We line books up on a shelf, pile them on the nightstand, arrange them for display on coffee tables. But ...
The New York Times

BOOKBINDING AS AN ART(2); Enthusiasm of Students of the Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery. Opportunity for Patience, Artistic Abil- ity, and Deftness of Hand -- Cost of Fine Covers in Labor.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
insider.si.edu

Upper and lower covers from a bookbinding

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] An accomplished French jeweler ...
The Harvard Crimson

Behind the Pages

Look around a bustling cafe in Harvard Square and you might see more people clutching Kindles and Nooks than paperbacks. In the age of digitization, e-books and e-readers are allowing for portable, ...
Columbus Dispatch

Father-son duo at the Hilltop's Beck & Orr still binding books 'just like we did in 1888'

Walking into Beck & Orr Book Binding is almost like stepping into a time machine. Vintage wrought-iron machines take up residence along the perimeter. Photographs from the shop's early days and ...
insider.si.edu

Upper and Lower Covers of a Bookbinding

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] An accomplished French jeweler ...