Period Fine Bindings
Bookbinding, Conservation, and Restoration
Blog Posts
- The Art of Royal Book Binding
- Gilding a Royal Binding
- Bookbinding and Book Restoration
- Antiquarian Bookbinding
- Cambridge Panelled Calf Bindings
- Bible Book Binding
- Regional Angling Literature Limited Editions
- Bookbinding and Masonic Book Restoration
- Removing Foxing and Mildew
- Paper Conservation and Removing Ink Stains
- Paper Conservation and Water Stain Removal
- Paper Conservation and Repairing Paper Tears
- The Ninth Gate
- Magickal Grimoires by Paul Tronson
- The Grimoire of God
- The Avenging Angel Grimoire
- The Guardian Angel Grimoire
- The Necronomicon
- The Magick of Hermes, Moses and King Solomon
- The Tiffany Collection
- Edge Gilding
- Vellum Bindings
- Archangel and Bookbinding Grimoires
- The English Bookbinder: Irregular Newsletter No. 1
- The English Bookbinder: Irregular Newsletter No. 2
- The English Bookbinder: Irregular Newsletter No. 3
- The English Bookbinder: Irregular Newsletter No. 4
Paul Tronson – Master Bookbinder
Period Fine Bindings
email: paul@periodfinebindings.com
A Master Bookbinder – restoring antiquarian books, Bibles and objets de virtu to period using original tools and techniques.
An expert at creating and recreating authentic traditional bindings using old materials and ancient formulae. Significant & considerable experience in the restoration of ‘lost’ or ‘fatally’ damaged work from the 10th to 19th Century; vellum, parchment, illuminated manuscripts and scrolls.
Category: Blog Posts
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This site is regularly updated For all your bookbinding and book restoration enquiries Email: paul@periodfinebindings.com Bookbinding: Ancient Bibles-Family Bibles Click on pictures to enlarge Bookbinding & Book Restoration of a Geneva Bible Bookbinding & Large Family Bibles Bookbinding & Book Restoration – Bibles:Full restoration of the Bible starts with carefully releasing the cover from the Bible,…
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Preface.. This content was originally published in 2008, and updated January 2020 One of 5 private investment libraries I am building and restoring at present is a medium sized specialist library for an eminent heart surgeon, who insists every 16th – 18thC book is restored and re-bound purely in my version of the Cambridge panelled calf binding…
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This site is updated regularly Click on images to enlarge The last Christopher Barker edition of the Elizabethan Geneva Bibles 1603, bound in the style of theRoyal Binder to Queen Elizabeth I. by Paul Tronson Antiquarian Bookbinding and Ancient Book Arts All books are bound by Paul Tronson Can there be any substitute for a well…
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This site is regularly updated Are your pages torn, eaten by vermin, ripped into pieces or crumbling with age and neglect? Have they been battered, creased, dog eared, scribbled inwith biro, crayon, ink, even sellotape water stains foxing orlibrary stamps? They said it wasn’t possible…………… Book restoration taken to an art form. Bookbinding and Paper…
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This site is regularly updated Preparation and Gilding Binding the book is the easy part, preparing for, and executing the design is about focusing on the job with a very steady hand and a keen eye.Total concentration is required as one chance is all you get, each tool executed with exact precision first every time.I…
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PERIOD FINE BINDINGS – Bookbinding & Royal Bindings – Commissions Accepted Worldwide This site is regularly updated Restoring your treasures since 1983 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…
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