Antiquarian books

Just thought I would share with people the kind of books we get in for a bit of TLC.

Looking around the bindery I found this pile of lovely looking books and thought it would be a little snap shot of what we deal with in the bindery on a weekly / monthly basis.

We restore antiquarian leather and cloth books as well as make clamshell storage boxes for the really special editions.

Some books just need a little clean while others are here to be restored and /or boxed.

Our clamshell storage boxes are handmade using double thickness boards with interlocking corners for strength and rigidity. Covered in a multitude of different fabrics or leathers we can produce a box to suit any book or occasion be it for storage purposes or a presentation evening. 

Below is a little video of a little cloth covered storage box for some rather lovely poetry books by Gustav Regler. Printed and bound in Mexico in 1943. illustrated by Alice Paalen and Louise Vogeler-Regler. One is signed by Regler and Paalen and is copy number 12 of 50. The pair of books also come with a photograph of Regler at a dinner party.......... I love a bit of history

We can also make storage boxes to look like leather bound books. These can stand on your library bookshelf and echo the look of book it is protecting. No more horrid, ugly storage solutions.

Print Release by Sebastian Edge , North London Darkroom

One year to the day the photographer Sebastian Edge made a number of wet collodion photographs of the band Radiohead, using his own hand built camera equipment.

Sebastian is currently working, three years into a growing body of work with the woods he grew up in, in Kent, England. when the project with the band collided.

This edition of the portrait of Thom, Ed, Colin, Jonny and Phil. Was for the press material for the The King of Limbs album, released February 14th 2011.

The hand printed limited edition of 100 by Sebastian, is being released through the North London Darkroom. where photographers make their own prints, to archival standards.

This print sale will help the North London Darkroom in its future endeavours with photographers to make photographs.

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Black Cat Bindery has just finished making the first batch of bespoke portfolios for North London Darkroom designed to hold the large limited edition Radiohead print.


Have a look below at the two vimeos to see the photographs and portfolios in the making

http://vimeo.com/37586409

http://vimeo.com/36743856

http://thomthomthom.com/whiteboard/2012/03/sebastian_edge_north_london_da.html