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Created by Danny Lineham And Partner. In today’s world, books and paper are easy and cheap to mass-produce. It’s much more efficient than when it was all done by hand...but in that efficiency, we have lost something. A mechanically produced book, made with mechanically produced paper may look nice and be lovely to read, but it contains nothing of the person who made it.
Our Coptic books are hand bound using an ancient method known as Coptic Binding. This binding was used by Coptic priests in Egypt nearly 2000 years ago to bind their manuscripts, and is kept alive today by a handful of artists and artisans. An intricate, painstakingly beautiful, non-adhesive binding with exposed knotted stitching across an open spine, it is the distant forerunner of much of our modern mechanical bookbinding. Every book is an individually crafted work of art. The process begins with the hand-folding of each signature. Then the covers are prepared with specially handmade paper. Once the covers have dried, they are hand-drilled. Next, each signature is meticulously sewn to the cover and/or the adjacent signatures. Finally, the endpages, also of handmade paper, are glued in and the title label is attached to the cover. Besides being true works of art and craftsmanship, the Coptic books, due to the nature of the binding, have the advantage of being able to open flat at any page.
Our Rustic books have a simple but charming binding evocative of a straightforward style which might have been used in a less sophisticated time. We developed this variation on a classic stab binding specifically for these books. Their handmade paper covers have a rough-hewn look, emphasized by torn edges on the decorative trim and rough cord for binding. Rustic books are available at a much lower price purely because they are simpler and much quicker to create, but you can rest assured that the same craftsmanship and attention to detail that the Coptic books receive is given to the Rustic books as well.
When an artist creates, their creation acquires just a little of their essence, their spirit, their soul. So it is when we hand-pull a sheet of paper, when we design and hand-bind a book. Each sheet of paper, each book, has just a little of us in it, and that sharing of ourselves enriches us as well as the recipient.
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| Nobody Owns a Cat |
| Hand Bound Book
$9.95 |
Quote Books
Rustic Binding - $9.95 - $14.95
Coptic Binding - AVAILABLE |
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| Heart to Heart |
| Hand Bound Book
$79.95 |
Double handbound Coptic binding |
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| Quote Books |
| Hand Bound Book
$9.95 |
Handbound series Including
Womens Words, Wisdom of the World, Friendship, Momisims
Rustic Binding
S $9.95
R $14.95
Coptic Binding
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| Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| Hand Bound Book
$9.95 |
Handbound Romance & Poetry
Rustic Binding
S - 9.95
R - 14.95
Coptic Binding
S - 39.95
R - 44.95 |
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| Alices Adventures in Wonderland |
| Hand Bound Book
$29.95 |
Handbound Classic Re-Creations Series including
Pride and Prejudice, The Raven, Anne of Green Gables, Sense and Sensibility,
Hucklebury Finn, Alice & Through the looking Glass
Rustic Binding Coptic Binding
$29.95 - $34.95 $64 -75.95
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Please email the gallery to view more works by Those Great Little Books.
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