Thursday, February 7, 2013

Just How Beautiful Books Are Made

My husband acquired a beautiful text block of the Pictorial Webster's Dictionary and then bound it beautifully in sheep skin leather.  
Joseph's copy of Pictorial Webster's Dictionary

See this 7 minute video of how all 13,000 wood engravings were gathered and put into the text block. 

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