This article is about the spine restoration and creation of facsimile pages on a 1626 edition on Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Over December, I’ve been working on a fairly collectable, but slightly bereft copy of Ovid’s Metamorphosis dating from 1626. This copy had been rebound in the early 19th century with a fairly unnatractive spine. The front […]
This is an article on leather spine rebacking where the original style of gold tooling was replicated onto the new leather spine. Rebacking the spine of a crudely repaired 18th century leather binding Soon after I started repairing the 1575 edition of Caesar’s Commentaries, a damaged 18th century edition arrived at my workshop. As with […]
This article details the repalcement of an old leather spine repair. The old repair had failed and the book required a new spine. This was tooled in gold in a style contemporary with the leather-bound covers. I completed the 1575 Caesar’s Commentaries some time ago, but haven’t got around to posting an update on the […]
This article is about replacing an old leather spine repair with a new leather spine. This process is known as ‘rebacking’. Amongst the books that I’m currently working on is a 1575 edition of Caesar’s Commentaries. This book presents an interesting, though relatively common challenge. Repairing a failed leather spine repair The book is not […]
This article is about leather spine repair on a set of books. Over the last month, amongst others I’ve been working on a 6 volume early set of Morris’s British Birds. The set is a family heirloom of a customer in West Sussex. Multi-volume sets are always slightly challenging to repair as once repaired, every […]
This article is on the creation of a facsimile page to replace a missing page in a book. Missing pages Over the passage of time, it’s not unusual for the odd page or two to become detached in a book. As long as the detached page(s) is still present, it is relatively straightforward to re-insert […]
Hello and welcome to the occasional diary page for Sussex Book Restoration. I update this diary/blog from time to time as and when I have interesting or noteworthy restoration projects come in that I’d like to share with you. In the entries below (scroll down to see them), you’ll find ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos […]