Period Bindings

This is an exceptionally rare book which celebrates the modern Olympic Games which have been held in Chipping Campden in the Cotswold’s since 1612. It was presented to me by the Dover Games Society, in a very poor nineteenth century binding, and I was asked to make an authentic historical binding for it.

This is a favourite text with antiquarian book lovers. 

A nice period calf binding on this classic book, made for a collector.

A charming little book, and rather rare. It is in a Cambridge Panel binding, a style which flourished from 1660-1760. 

This is an important, iconic book which was one of the first botanical encyclopaedias of the modern age. Presented here in a binding style common to the first half on the seventeenth century: plain calf and blind tooling with a simple red gold tooled label.

This is an important early naval book. A very simple plain sprinkled calf binding with a simple tooled red label.

A gem of a book from the golden age of British printing. Again, the binding was lost, and we created this lovely panel binding for it.

Milton’s great work, printed by Baskerville, is here rehoused in a sympathetic binding common to the eighteenth century. Sprinkled boards over brown calk, with a nice label. Done for a Baskerville collector in New York.

Made for the same collector from New York, these two companion volumes are two versions of the same texts. For his pleasure we made two different, but related, panel bindings common at the time.