In 1984 I began restoring books in institutional special collections — for several years at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, then to Carleton and Saint Olaf Colleges in Northfield MN, where I worked for five years on Special Collections for both institutions. I am now in private practice, my workshop in my home near Lake Hiawatha in Minneapolis.
Much of my work is leather, but of course all sorts of books find their way into my workshop — children’s books, keepsakes, bibles, etc.
Book Restoration Examples
Bibles
Rebacked 19th century Family Bible.
Bible. 1830.
Bible. 1830.
1888 Bible.
1888 Bible.
Bible. 18th century
Bible. 18th century.
Polish Bible and prayer book.
Polish prayer book.
Polish Bible.
Cloth Binding Repair
Cosmos, 1885
Hegel, 1843.
Gray’s Atlas. 1873.
The Salmon Fly. 1895.
Whistler Recollections. 1905.
Plat Book, 1910.
Leather Binding Repair
19th century leather binding.
1833. Jochers Lexicon.
1833. Jochers Lexicon.
18th century. History of the Insurrection.
18th century. History of the Insurrection.
18th century. History of the Insurrection.
1804. De Veritate Christianae.
17th century Cambridge panel style
17th century Cambridge panel style binding.
1740. Mr. Whitfield’s Journal.
1740. Mr. Whitfield’s Journal.
1804. De Veritate Christianae.
1834. Archiv fur Historie og Geographe. 6 volumes.
1834. Archiv fur Historie og Geographe.
19th century. Quarter leather, marbled paper sides.
19th century. Quarter leather (sheepskin), marbled paper sides.
