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 […]
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 […]