reliure et restauration, rue Auguste-Comte, Lyon, depuis 1961
Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer, 1893 cloth. Commissioned by a reader, not a collector. It gets read again now.
Torn hinges, foxing, brittle spines. The workhorse repairs; most books leave within three weeks.
from 120 EUR
Rebacks, corner rebuilding, blind and gold tooling matched to the original hand.
from 340 EUR
Bibles, cookbooks, the atlas a grandfather annotated. Sentiment is a perfectly good conservation reason.
quoted gently
The cover and the worst page. A reply comes within two working days with an honest range, including, when it is true, the advice that a well-made box would serve the book better.
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