Craft Bookbinding Company

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Ed, WOW this is impressive, I hate we had to re back the book, but it looks awesome and just like it should. I do have one question, with the book closed and looking at the pages from a sideways angle the pages appear red orange spotted, what is the purpose of that? Duke Reply: Duke, What you see is sprinkled edges. Sprinkling or staining the edges was done to nearly every book that was produced. The less expensive books were sprinkled, Staining red or yellow was usually for the full gilt leather bindings. The purpose of sprinkling and staining was to hide dirty finger marks and dust. When you see a leather book from the Eighteenth Century and earlier that doesn't have its edges sprinkled, the ink has likely faded or worn off. Books that had the edges stained usually show some traces of it. In the late Eighteenth Century, until the early Twentieth, it was not uncommon to see marbled edges. Of course there has been gilt edge books for the past two hundred years. Gilding was done for the same reason, but it also said that the books owner had expensive taste. Edge treatments can come in a variety of styles: Gaufferred edges have designs pressed into them.

I would like to recommend Ed Stansell to you as an highly skilled book restoration professional. In October of 2003, I contacted Mr. Stansell and discussed with him the rebinding of a book which my wife and I found in a basement. The book we found is a copy of "The Federalist", printed and published by Jacob Gideon, June 1818. The boards front and back were torn lose and the spine was also in need of much attention. The leather binding was dry rotted, and would fall apart just by touching the book. Mr.Stansell did an excellent job, the new leather binding was crafted to look like the original binding with the gold lettering on spine. I am quite pleased to display this book in my book collection.n Mr. Stansell I would be more than happy to be listed as an reference to you and the Craft Bookbinding Company. I look forward to working with you in the future.

Even though it is still restoration, Family Bibles deserve a spot of their own. More than any other book, we repair, rebind and restore antique Family Bibles. Because of the number of these we do and the many years of experience we have in working with old Family Bibles, we are confident that our work is unsurpassed, anywhere. We also believe after we have restored your Family Bible that you will agree.

At Craft Bookbinding, we provide fine edition binding in cloth or genuine leather. If you like the look of hand marbled paper; we often use marbled end-papers or marble paper on the covers of books in combination with fine cloth or leather. We have a tremendous variety of text papers and cover materials to choose from. We are sure that you will be more than pleased with the edition we produce for you.

Family Bible was found in the attic of our customer's aunt. It was under the eaves where there was a roof leak. At first, our customer thought it was a block of wood supporting the rafter. A closer look told him that it was a book. On examination he discovered many familiar names in the record section and knew this book must be saved.

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