SCNHREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "This new book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period, from the middle of the fifteenth century to the ...

After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been ...

In January of 1869, Dr. John Stockton Hough stooped over an autopsy table to examine the emaciated corpse of Mary Lynch. When Dr. Hough opened Lynch's chest cavity to inspect her tuberculosis-wracked ...

The Library Company notes that the bindings “appeared on American books only briefly — around 1850-55 — a time of increasingly elaborate book cover decoration.” The use of inlaid shell on books wasn’t ...

First comes a love of books. Great patience and skill is required to restore old books, but equally important is the belief that each one is a work of art. The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in ...

Join us at the Center for Book Arts to gain hands-on experience in the art and craft of book binding. Presented by PALA. Supported by Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund.

“Old books love a bath,” Don Rash said. And he meant it literally. Bathing book pages to clean them is one of the up to 16 meticulous steps needed to restore antiquarian books. “Bathing washes out 400 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 9: Judith Sims makes a book during a book binding class at San Francisco Center for the Book in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (Shae Hammond/Bay ...

Create your own haven for your ideas and imagination. Barrovian Books bookbinding workshop guides you through every fold, stitch, and bind as you craft handmade booklets that are uniquely yours! Ryan ...