Bookbinding & Royal Bindings

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This site was updated June 2014

 Bookbinding and Book Restoration

Conservation, Restoration and Period Fine Bindings

For all your bookbinding and book restoration email: paul@periodfinebindings.com 

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 Two Royal Bindings Bound by Paul Tronson.

 

Bookbinding & The Art of Royal Bookbinding

Bookbinding and Book Restoration

"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.

Bookbinding, Book Restoration & Royal Binding - in the style of Royal Book Binder to Charles II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st edition The Antiquities of Warwickshire, William Dugdale

Restored and bound by Paul Tronson.

Bookbinding & The Geneva Bible

A full story of the restoration of a Geneva Bible can be found here

 

The Genevan Bible...Restored and Re-bound by Paul Tronson

Bookbinding & The Guardian Angel Grimoire - A Royal Binding

Bookbinding and book restoration

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

The Guardian Angel Grimoire bound by Paul Tronson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Binding Books & Royal Bindings

Binding Books & Royal Bindings - 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.

Paul Tronson has been known for over 30 years as a world leading conservator and traditional bookbinder.

30th Year Anniversary - 1983 - 2013

  
             1983                                          2013

Still restoring private investment libraries 30 years on!

 (albeit a little greyer, balder and plumper)

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