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– – Bookbinder’s Dressing – – The ultimate food for leather.
Click here to try a can. Bookbinder's Dressing is my formulation of of an ancient recipe handed down from master to apprentice for over 500 hundred years. I make this in small batches and will mail it the same day your order is received.
-Max MarblesBefore Restoration
After Restoration
Other Before/After Bible Restoration Photos
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Cloth binding disassembled
Hit his old cloth bound book is now ready for rebuilding the spine and rebacking. Not too much page repair and cosmetics will be simple.
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Tests – Cleaning an old oil painting.
Tested more than a few solvents before cleaning this painting. After all was done it cleaned up nicely. Now it’s drying with a coat of damar varnish.
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Spanish-American War Album
During the 1890s South Dakota organized a regiment to go to war. The ephemera and photos of the album do well in showing that experience. I also made an ePub book of the albums scans.
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Happy New Year – Max Marbles/Bookbinder
Click on the image to see a monstrous view of the bindery! Happy New Year to my wonderful clients and to you who I have not yet met. And a big thanks to Ron Cooper for this great shot!
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West 1896
Fun, fun. Here a cloth binding with an early clay coated paper to show the images better. The glue separated from the binding over time and the job was to rebuild the spine and rejoin the contents to the cover. … Continue reading
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