Antiquarian Bookbinding and Modern Book Arts
My dream is to make the Ancient Book Arts as pleasing to the modern eye as possible but to allow
traditional bookbinding to be
seen as it truly is.......... an art form
by drawing on the styles, skills and techniques of great Master Bookbinders
Period Fine Bindings can
recreate the sumptiousness and inspired antiquarian bookbinding of the ages.
Bookbinding by Paul Tronson
( Fermented black plums, red cherries and cochineale are the natural dyes used in this binding )
Paul Tronson Master Bookbinder
Email:periodfinebindings@googlemail.com
Next Page Book binding & The "Cambridge" Panelled Calf
Compare some of the following fine bindings with modern day Book Arts presented by Richard Minsky
28 Bookbinding/Book of hours (Northern Netherlands, 1497)
33 Bookbinding by Christopher Plantin (Antwerp, 1550)
48 Textile bookbinding (The Netherlands, 1615-1620)
58 Bookbinding (Amsterdam, Kircher-binder, 1671)
64 Bookbinding by the First Stadholders' Bindery (Middelburg, 1734-1738?)
66 Bookbinding by Suenonius Mandelgreen (Middelburg, 1757)
74 Bookbinding by Friedrich W.I.C. Kolb (Amsterdam, 1835)
82 Bookbinding by Dirk Nicolaas Esveld (Amsterdam, 1912)
85 C.S. Adama van Scheltema: De tors (Rotterdam, 1924)
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