Last month got me very nostalgic so I thought you may like to see some very bad photo’s I’ve scanned from up to 20 years ago.
1988 Working on a 2006...Still working!!
1st ed Baskerville Bible
Histoire des Grecs Nash's History of Worcesteshire
The Customer wanted a leather binding for his "Histoire du Grec" so I matched the colour of the cloth and inlayed the original cloth covers back and front and tooled a gold border around them.
The Nash's has the rare "Amphlet volume" index that was published 100 years later by the Reverend Amphlet.
Two examples of hand marbled calf bindings...........Ahh Walshes Egypt 1st edition, hand coloured plates etched on the battlefield.....with a piece of "bloodied bandage" stuck across a torn leaf.....amateur conservation in the field of duty!!
A collection of fine bindings and a 1st ed 1st issue 1843 Christmas Carol bound in 1843 (or contemporary) materials, I may do a feature on the "Art of Faking" as the materials have to be restored before they can be used.
The "Carol" is actually sat on a 1st issue of Agatha Christies "Man in the Brown Suit".