Book Restoration and Repair

You may have reached this page looking for someone to repair your damaged books. I recently changed from restoring and repairing damaged books to making new journals.

If you are looking for someone to restore books I suggest contacting the Guild of Book Workers and asking for referrals to recommended binders in your area. Here is a link to the Guild of Book Workers.

Examples of restored books 



 

Examples of book restorations

Example of rebacking with leather, a method of reattaching the covers
Before treatment.After treatment.
Examples of reattaching covers to leather bindings using the japanese paper method adovcated by Don Etherington. This is an ideal method of repair on fine-bindings of the late 19th early 20th century; particularly when the leather on the spine is extremely thin and with gilding or raised bands.
 
Before treatment.After treatment.
Before treatment.After treatment.
Le Tour du Monde en Coquille de Noix. This illustrated children's book was resewn and the binding was rebacked with cloth.
Before treatment.After treatment,    January 2003.
 
 
Parables of Our Lord, 1848.     Papier-mache binding with black leather spine. The book originally had a rubber adhesive binding. To allow the binding to open easily for reading, the pages were guarded and sewn in signatures.
 
Parables of Our Lord
before treatment.		Two views of Parables of Our Lord after treatment.

Home Page FAQs Links