Historic Models & Rebinds
Millimetre rebind of The Life of the Virgin Mary by Rilke, covered with paste paper by me
Trade rebind of Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood, spine gilt with lemon gold
Trade rebind of "Painful Pleasure", a book of 1930s erotica I found at the Antiquarian book fair. Spine gilt with moon gold.
Another angle of Painful Pleasure
18th Century calf rebind of The Poetical Works of Tennyson. Rice marbled covers, gilding done with red gold.
Tennyson rebind alongside other 18th Century calf models, one quarter binding, the other covered fully with leather and decorated using the "cat's paw" technique
Lineup of 5 millimetre bindings, all past paper done by me except the leftmost (by Hook Pottery Paper)
Pink rubow style millimetre binding (head and tail have strip of leather), paste paper done by me
Interior view of pink millimetre binding
Historical lapped component binding, covered in paste paper by me. Goofy label in Yiddish, since these were traditionally German books.