The Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio

Welcome to BOOKBINDING!

Bookbinding.com is a site dedicated to book binding. Our aim is to help you understand what book binding is by answering the many questions you may have, with examples and text written on the art of binding books.

If you are looking for how-to links, Practical Bookbinding or Bookbinding for Amateurs are a good start, with useful tips for hobby and professional bookbinders alike. Useful for Grade School Teachers, Paper and Cardboard Construction, and for the aspiring designer, An Essay on Color.
Diderot pages on Bookbinding will help you with the equipment necessary for the trade, specially if you wish to build your own presses, sewing frames, cutting plows etc.

Museum boxes are an important part of bookbinding and preservation, so I prepared a step by step tutorial on the process. Sometimes some skills cross over from trade to trade. It's in this spirit that I have published a rare work on Gilding and Bronzing picture frames, where you will find pointers on this topic.

Here is a complete list of our publications, articles and books on book binding.

I recommend these 2 books, Edith Diehl's classic on Bookbinding, a must read if you are serious about the art, and Bernard C. Middleton , The Restoration of leather Bindings, my first primer on book restoration. Below are links to booksellers who can supply them.

 

Follow this link to buy books bound at the Studio, throughout the years and decades, I have produced several hundred bindings for collectors and publishers alike, some of these have found their way to the booksellers database and available for purchase there. You can also browse our stock here.

From time to time we sell on Ebay and you can find our offerings here.

Follow this live feed for news about bookbinding. It's an easy way to stay informed about the trade and is is automatically updated for your conveniance.

The bookbinder stain glass picture at the left of the page is after a { cms_selflink page='jobst-amman' text='1568 wood block'} by Jost Amman.

I sincerely hope that you will find this web site useful for the links leading to the many facets of bookbinding trade or hobby, thank you for spending some time with me.

I will periodically add more information about bookbinding and publish hard to find works on the topic, so come back often and enjoy your visits.

Thanks!

Denis

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