A small etching from my collection...  Etching by Christian Mischke, 1994

Recently acquired the 1927 issue of the Allegmeiner Anzeiger für Buchbindereien , the leading trade weekly for bookbinders, in part because...

Hand-colored etching, signed in pencil E[rnst] Heig[enmoser], ca. 1945. 5.5 x 9.5cm. Click to enlarge I recently acquired this desolat...

Written with Ruth Wiseman When I began translating Ernst Collin's Pressbengel ( The Bone Folder ) it was because I felt such an affin...

From The Profession Of Bookselling: A Handbook Of Practical Hints For The Apprentice And Bookseller by A. Growoll, London, 1895. Pg 108. G...

I am in the process of helping clarify much of the biographical information about Ernst Collin, author of Der Pressbengel (1922) that I tra...

First attempts at creating lacunose panels, a technique developed by English binder Paul Delrue.These may still be in progress, haven't ...