#leather bound books

[andallshallbewell]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[assignedclownatcheckout]

the ghost and the raven series update time:

So on one hand I'm thrilled to announce that I'm getting better at making the size of books match!

On the other hand, I fucked up casing in the second book and the third ended up both perfect and tragic. I cased it correctly and it looks beautiful, except I forgot about dye batches and so it's a completely different color from the first two 😭😭😭

[othmeralia]

Well, this was quite the surprise!

Our collections assistant is going through a rather large donation that has fun little surprises like this. A jewelry box with a very small leather bound book! The book contains the United States' pledge of allegiance.

[cozy-brew]

Ahhh nothing better than good old leather-bound books :)

Source: Pinterest

[sayashade]

Went to my uncle's house in Chennai (formerly Madras, under British colonial rule) and found his father-in-law's collection of books. There are some lovely leather-bound Russian literary texts in there as well.

Unfortunately, I couldn't stick around long enough to take a proper look, so I took a few pics and am gonna let y'all rifle through them instead.

[gryphoneditions]

Plutarch's timeless wisdom... https://gryphoneditions.com/product/plutarchs-morals-2-vol-set/

[nosnexus]

A fun, fiery, episode 2!

[tenth-sentence]

Not new, to judge by its scuffed corners, but finely bound in leather.

"Weaveworld" - Clive Barker

[andallshallbewell]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[assignedclownatcheckout]

✨Another leather bound book✨

I think this one turned out pretty nicely

[aclockworkreader]

hermitage antiquarian bookshop - denver 📚

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Aqua and Brown ~

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

Not to brag but I actually put away all my double/triple/quadruple copies and organized all my remaining Gatsbies/Gatsby-adjacent materials…

[wrongfulruffian]

I finished my first leather-bound book! My brother envisioned having a copy of Frankenstein that is stitched leather so that it looks like skin, so for his Christmas present this year I tried to make it happen.

This was my first time working with real leather, and I am really proud of how it came out.

I also created my own typeset for Frankenstien, the text courtesy of Project Gutenberg. I used the illustrations by Bernie Wrightson throughout the text.

I wanted to put gilded edges on it but have only ever gilded rebinds so the edges were already trimmed. Since I don't have a guillotine capable of trimming whole text blocks I had to figure out a different way. I used a wood planer to trim, and it worked pretty well! I didn't go quite deep enough on the long edge and messed up trimming the top of one of my signatures so the top is a little uneven too, but overall it worked really well!

All the leather I used for the cover came from a scrap bag I bought from a leather vendor at the last ren faire I went to. There were a lot of really nice colors and pieces. I pieced them together and made templates to ensure I cut out the right pieces. I researched a couple different stitches and decided that the back side of a cross stitch looked the best and resembled what looked the most like Frankensteinesc sutures.

Once everything was stitched together I glued it onto the boards. The corners were probably the hardest part since leather corners are done differently than book cloth. They aren't perfect but I think I did pretty good for a first try!

I finished up the text block once all the colors of the cover were decided on. I wanted to make sure the colors I chose for the headband and the ribbon matched. I tried fraying my linen tapes so that they are less visible under the end pages. This is the first bind I've done this on and I'm definitely gonna keep doing it.

I cased it in, and am eally happy with the final results! I should have made the spine a little wider to compensate for how thick the leather is but I'm hoping that with time the leather will loosen up a bit so there is less tension on the hinges.