16thC German Gothic Binding

Oak boards with bevelled edges, with blind tool decoration

Metamophoses d'Ovide. 1677

Massive folio in black natural grained goat

William Nott 'Restoration' Binding

William Nott 'Restoration' Binding

William Nott 'Restoration' Binding

Headband and book edge detail

Newton's Optiks ... 1704

Cambridge panelled-calf binding

Book of Psalms ... 1752

Finishing tools designed and engraved to match original binding

Hill's, Eden

Folio, half calf.

Journal of Capt. Cook's ... 1783

Marbled calf binding

18thC Manuscript Lecture Notes

Full period binding, with every effort made to copy the original binding, from the Dutch marble paper to the vellum tips.

Bound mss. picture #2

Marbled calf re-backs

The Works of Robert Burns. London, 1803.

Porcupine's Works ... 1801

Full marbled calf binding

Irving's, Lives of the Scottish Poets. Edinburgh: 1804.

Watercolour sketchbook ... 1840

Full goat crimson binding.

Watercolour sketchbook

Detail of spine

Watercolour sketchbook

Detail of gilt dentelles

Music manuscript ... ca. 1850

Full goat binding

Music manuscript ... ca. 1850

Spine detail

Chamber ... 1859

1/2 calf binding, with marbled paper over boards

Kay's Portraits ... 1877

1/2 goat with marbled paper over boards

Waugh's Brideshead Revisited ... 194