After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been ...

Working right from home you can bind books in small quantities and repair antique books. Bookbinding equipment is very inexpensive to purchase and there are even construction plans available that will ...

Walking into Beck & Orr Book Binding is almost like stepping into a time machine. Vintage wrought-iron machines take up residence along the perimeter. Photographs from the shop's early days and ...

“Old books love a bath,” Don Rash said. And he meant it literally. Bathing book pages to clean them is one of the up to 16 meticulous steps needed to restore antiquarian books. “Bathing washes out 400 ...

Houghton Library celebrated the opening of a new exhibit, “InsideOUT Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books,” at an event on Wednesday evening. Harvard Library officials also took the ...