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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Bindings by W. Collin

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Syracuse University Libraries' Leopold v. Ranke Collection can be considered as a time-capsule of sorts in that all books were bound bef...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Cranach Press Hamlet - Ignatz Wiemeler

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Visited the Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Graphic Arts Collection with a class I was taking several weeks ago, and was VERY p...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Mayflies of the Driftless Region

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Working on Gaylord Shanilec's Mayflies of the Driftless Region for Designer Bookbinders' "Contemporary Bindings of Private Pre...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Fancied-up Books 2

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Another commission that involved rebinding a modern trade binding. I had rediscovered several sheets of beautiful birch veneer and used this...
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Cranach Press Hamlet - Process in photographs

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Harry Graf Kessler by Edvard Munch As often happens when reading, one finds a source mentioned, follows it to something else, and off on...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Endpaper Sample Book

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Endpaper sample/swatch book from the Buntpapier- and Leimfabrik A.-G. in Aschaffenburg, Germany , and dated 1901/2. The volume is in the Ha...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Provenance and Costs of Bookbinding

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A few weeks ago Peter Zillig (Vuscor) shared a book he had found on ebay that was being offered by a dealer in Cologne, Germany. The book i...
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