Miller Bookbinding

This dictionary was an absolute joy to work on. It came in totally covered in a dirty wax substance that clearly was not part of the books original cover. Cleaning it off revealed a lovely decorative design. The before photos can be seen at the end of the photo collection. Aside from surface cleaning the first sections of the dictionary were lose and needed to be mended and reattached. After all that a new spine in a sympathetic colour was used and the original spine glued on top.

Stephen Fry: The History Of The First Printing Press | The Machine That Made Us | Timeline Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how an...

This was a fun little repair. The books spine had come off but otherwise in overall good shape. I replaced some missing chords within the textblock to strengthen it. From there it was reattaching the boards and putting on a new spine. I wasn't sure i would be able to color match the minty green but by good fortune i happened to have a random sheet that was a close match. It's always a pleasure to get materials to easily match with historical colours and how they've faded over time.

This book came in missing its spine and some text on the cover. the main focus for the owner was to make the book useable for her children again. That repair is easy enough so I tried my hand at something I dont often get to do and thats fixing missing elements to an image or text. I managed to recreate the missing letters with what the little image editing software I own. However I'm no printer and the machines I have at my disposal weren't able to totally color match with thr original red but matched by good fortune the new spine color quite well. Overall im quite pleased and am happy the front cover title makes sense again. I hope further opportunities arise where i can further practice using modern tech solutions to assist with the repair of a book.