Leather Repair
With years of handling and use, books...like most things, break down and begin to deteriorate. Older books, often bound in leather, become brittle with age. Hinges crack, spines chip, covers go missing. I pay special attention when selecting period and archival materials to repair a binding, matching as closely as possible the texture and finish of the original leather. Often times this requires reproduction of gold and blind tooling. I make frequent trips to the Special Collection Departments of local universities to research binding designs and styles so as to best match any missing material.

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."  -Thomas Carlyle