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Full leather binding with gold decorative gold nig Full leather binding with gold decorative gold night sky. Thank you to Dean Press, Maiden Bradley, Wilts for the super fast and efficient printing so that we could get this book to its owner in double quick time. #bookbinding #blackcatbindery #lovestory
Colourful clamshell boxes for some first editions. Colourful clamshell boxes for some first editions. #clamshellboxes #marbledpaper #bookbinding #blackcatbindery
Dance of Death Beautiful engravings by W.Hollar fo Dance of Death Beautiful engravings by W.Hollar for Holbein’s Dance of Death. Printed in 1898. Bound in black calf with decorative gold tooling. Red leather title labels #holbein #danceofdeath #blackcatbindery #bookbinder #engraving
George Orwell’s 1984 bound in black goatskin wit George Orwell’s 1984 bound in black goatskin with blind tooling and title /author in gold. Red leather title label #1984 #georgeorwell #blackcatbindery #bookbindersofinstagram #handbound #leatherbook #firstedition
Had a little play with my new ( second hand) foil Had a little play with my new ( second hand) foil blocking machine 😌 250kg of hot metal! A bit of adjustment, cleaning and getting to know this KOBO TC - 851 and I will be grinning from ear to ear…… I will soon be able to emboss larger areas than before…. Watch this space. 🙃
The North Pole, Robert E. Peary bound in dark gree The North Pole, Robert E. Peary bound in dark green leather with red leather label and decorative gold tooling. #thenorthpole #peary #bookbinding #blackcatbindery
Gent’s History of Hull bound in full leather wit Gent’s History of Hull bound in full leather with decorative gold and blind tooling #hull #bookbinding #leatherbook
Another Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier this time bou Another Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier this time bound in a soft blue calf with hand dyed calf onlays and decorative gold tooling #rebecca #daphnedumaurier #firstedition #blackcatbindery #bookbinding
Lovely set of The Nature Printed British Sea-weed Lovely set of The Nature Printed British Sea-weed by Johnstone and Croall came in for a bit of TLC. #blackcatbindery These volumes are The earliest form of non-adhesive (*perfect) binding, invented in 1836 by William Hancock. Spines were coated with flexible rubber solution (gutta-percha), after cutting off the folds, which set and held the book together. This was cheaper than traditional sewn bindings, but the rubber perishes over time and the books disintegrate. The technique was abandoned ... ... #seaweed #natureprinting
“The Rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twiste “The Rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken,”. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier bound in dark blue goatskin with decorative red leather onlays and gold embossing #rebecca #daphnedumaurier #blackcatbindery #bookbinder
Full leather binding with gold decorative gold nig Full leather binding with gold decorative gold night sky. Thank you to Dean Press, Maiden Bradley, Wilts for the super fast and efficient printing so that we could get this book to its owner in double quick time. #bookbinding #blackcatbindery #lovestory
Colourful clamshell boxes for some first editions. Colourful clamshell boxes for some first editions. #clamshellboxes #marbledpaper #bookbinding #blackcatbindery
Dance of Death Beautiful engravings by W.Hollar fo Dance of Death Beautiful engravings by W.Hollar for Holbein’s Dance of Death. Printed in 1898. Bound in black calf with decorative gold tooling. Red leather title labels #holbein #danceofdeath #blackcatbindery #bookbinder #engraving
George Orwell’s 1984 bound in black goatskin wit George Orwell’s 1984 bound in black goatskin with blind tooling and title /author in gold. Red leather title label #1984 #georgeorwell #blackcatbindery #bookbindersofinstagram #handbound #leatherbook #firstedition
Had a little play with my new ( second hand) foil Had a little play with my new ( second hand) foil blocking machine 😌 250kg of hot metal! A bit of adjustment, cleaning and getting to know this KOBO TC - 851 and I will be grinning from ear to ear…… I will soon be able to emboss larger areas than before…. Watch this space. 🙃
The North Pole, Robert E. Peary bound in dark gree The North Pole, Robert E. Peary bound in dark green leather with red leather label and decorative gold tooling. #thenorthpole #peary #bookbinding #blackcatbindery
Gent’s History of Hull bound in full leather wit Gent’s History of Hull bound in full leather with decorative gold and blind tooling #hull #bookbinding #leatherbook
Another Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier this time bou Another Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier this time bound in a soft blue calf with hand dyed calf onlays and decorative gold tooling #rebecca #daphnedumaurier #firstedition #blackcatbindery #bookbinding
Lovely set of The Nature Printed British Sea-weed Lovely set of The Nature Printed British Sea-weed by Johnstone and Croall came in for a bit of TLC. #blackcatbindery These volumes are The earliest form of non-adhesive (*perfect) binding, invented in 1836 by William Hancock. Spines were coated with flexible rubber solution (gutta-percha), after cutting off the folds, which set and held the book together. This was cheaper than traditional sewn bindings, but the rubber perishes over time and the books disintegrate. The technique was abandoned ... ... #seaweed #natureprinting
“The Rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twiste “The Rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken,”. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier bound in dark blue goatskin with decorative red leather onlays and gold embossing #rebecca #daphnedumaurier #blackcatbindery #bookbinder
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