Fine Leather Bindings
Fine Hand-Tooled & Gilt Leather Bookbindings. Calf, Morocco and Vellum.
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Indigo Dreams
When it was completed in 1912, the Great Omar was the most elaborate and opulent binding ever created. It was embellished with over 1,000 jewels, 5,000 leather onlays and 100 square feet of gold leaf. It took a team of craftsmen over two and a half years to make. It went down with the Titanic
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Binding by Zaehnsdorf, late 19th or early 20th century
Zaehnsdorf (Binder). Andrew Lang. AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE. London, David Nutt, 1887. Late 19th or Early 20th Century. Green goatskin, upper and lower covers tooled in gold to a rambling rose design and with a central armorial device of Alexander H. Turnbull.