The Art of Royal Book Binding

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Bookbinding and Book Restoration

Conservation, Restoration and Period Fine Bindings

This page illustrates how Paul Tronson creates fine bindings

using hundreds of impressions of very small tools to create fine art

in the same manner that was generally

employed by the great Masters of past centuries.

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The Art of Royal Book Binding

“The trade of a Bookbinder has been ranked among the most difficult of the arts…..

…. The appearance of a book, to a casual observer, seems to require little talent, but if the various subdivisions of the work (which form not less than sixty) are considered, and in the proper execution, of which consists the Art of Bookbinding, it will not be surprising to find how few men have arrived at eminence in it”. John Hannett “Bibliopegia” 1831.

Paul Tronson is a Master Bookbinder who specializes in traditional bookbinding and book restoration in the ancient styles of the great masters, with materials that cannot be bought but are hand made using their exacting techniques and formulae.

The Genevan Bible…

Restored and Re-bound by Paul Tronson

The last Elizabethan Genevan Bible 1603. Bound in the style of Queen’s Binder “A” who presented her copy in 1600.

1st edition Faerie Queene 1611 by Edmund Spenser, fully restored and re-bound by Paul Tronson

The Guardian Angel Grimoire – A Royal Binding

For the full story of this Royal Binding – Guardian Angel Grimoire click here

The Avenging Angel Grimoire

To see the Avenging Angel Grimoire page click here

First Complete English Edition of Cervantes Don Quixote in the two parts

My choice of binding for this 1st ed of Don Quixote was originally in a “Spanish Renaissance” style, but the client insisted on the same style as the Dugdale binding, even though the book was much smaller!…..Ahh well! We aim to please.

The Tale of Two Cities…rare variant 1st issue, restored and rebound by Paul Tronson

1644 Last folio Geneva Bible and the 2nd ed of the large folio Great Shee Bible. Restored and bound by Paul Tronson.

The Great Shee Bible. the genuine 72 line 2nd edition, restored and rebound by Paul Tronson.

The Grimoire of GOD….Probably the most ambitious Grimoire I have ever done…The recto side angelic and the verso side a demonic mirror image. The design is created using more than 5000 impressions of straight lined tools of different sizes (pallets) and curved tools of different sizes (gauges). Also used were a 6pt, 8pt, and 10pt letters and a tiny pentagram…..Click HERE to see how the Grimoire of God was made.