"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.... " Henry Ward Beecher
Alexander McGuckin
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Period Bindings
16thC German Style Binding
Metamorphoses d'Ovide. 1677
Restoration Style Binding
Restoration Binding detail
Newton's Optiks ... 1704
Book of Psalms ... 1752
Hill's Eden ... 1757
Journal of Cpt. Cook's.. 1783
18thC Manuscript Lecture Notes
Bound mss. picture 2
Marbled calf re-backs
Porcupine's Works ... 1801
Full marbled calf Binding
Watercolour sketchbook ...1840
Watercolour sketchbook ...1840
Detail of gilt dentelles
Music manuscript .... ca 1850
Music manuscript .... ca 1850
Chamber ... 1859
Southesk ... 1875
Kay's Portraits ... 1877
Waugh's Brideshead ... 1945
Period Bindings
Restoration
Calf re-back
Marbled calf re-back
17thc goat re-back
Close-up of repair
Calf re-backs.
Refreshing a Bindng(s)
After
Restoration
Design Bindings
Polite Erotica by R. Desmarais
Polite Erotica
The Amazons by Bannet
All True Things by Macleod
All True Things
Good Faeries-Bad Faeries
Good Faeries-Bad Faeries
Good Faeries-Bad Faeries
Good Faeries-Bad Faeries
Good Faeries-Bad Faeries
Riding with Rilke by Bishop
Riding with Rilke
Riding with Rilke
Woolf's Head Publishing
Woolf's Head Publishing
Design Bindings
Boxes
Clamshell boxes for mss.
Clamshell Box
Large boxes
to smallest and most delicate.
Simple or ornate
Of an infinite variety
Slipcases
Slipcase and chemise
Portfolio with slipcase
Clamshell Boxes, Slipcases & Portfolios
Special Commissions
Special Commissions
Books for presentation
Boxes for presentation
Dressing up modern books
Personalised gifts
Box's of all shapes and sizes
Presentation Speciman Box
Blank books
Personalised Portfolios
Personalised portfolios
Finishing Tools
Finishing Tools
Pallets collection
centre tools
Matching an exisiting binding
Matching tools
The result!
Pallets
Centre tools
About
Based in Edmonton, Canada, Alex McGuckin has dedicated the last fifteen years to studying the craft of bookbinding. What began as a rather intensive hobby during his four year residence in England, bookbinding became an all-encompassing passion upon his return to Canada, so much so that he decided to leave academia and pursue bookcraft full time. Receiving instruction in England , Canada, and Mexico, and buoyed by the tireless encouragement and support of a number of distinguished mentors, Alex has been binding professionally for the past decade in his west-end bookbindery. Specialising in period bindings, the atelier staff (of one) is well equipped to deal with a myriad of bibliopegistic requests, ranging from elaborate fully gilt leather period or pictorial bindings, to paper repair, light bleaching, and deacidification. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about your books.Alex McGuckin
Contact
Alexander McGuckin
7404-157th St NWEdmonton, AlbertaCanada T5R 1Z9Tel: + 1 780 482-1396Fax: +1 780 482-1998Email: ajm88_shaw.ca
