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Eleven Views of The Silmarillion
A PICTURE GALLERY OF PERSONAL BOOKBINDING
PROJECTS, 2021–2024
A selection of rebinds, all of The Silmarillion, completed between 2021 and 2024. Most of these projects involved the incorporation of at least one new technique, although this isn't necessarily obvious from the single image provided. Three of the projects shown here—the UNIVERSITY PRESS fourth impression rebinds (projects #23, 25, and 28)—I have covered at length elsewhere; see Gebrochene Rücken links at end of this post. My inability to photographically capture detail—materials
and tooling in particular—is, unfortunately, a consistent feature of all eleven images. Simple bad lettering, on my part, is also to blame; the camera doesn't (always) lie.
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| Project #9 |
Project #9 ~ FEBRUARY 2021
THE SILMARILLION, BCA, 1978
Lumbeck Bradel binding
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| Project #10 |
Project #10 ~ FEBRUARY 2021
THE SILMARILLION, HarperCollins, 1994
Lumbeck Bradel binding
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| Project #19 |
Project #19 ~ MAY 2021
THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (2ND IMP.)
Library-style (split-board) rebind |
| Project #21 |
Project #21 ~ AUGUST 2021
THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (2ND IMP.)
Laced-on-boards rebind  |
| Project #22 |
Project #22 ~ NOVEMBER 2021
THE SILMARILLION, HarperCollins, 1998
Laced-on-boards rebind.jpg) |
| Project #23 |
PART OF THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (Univ. Press 4TH IMP.)
BOUND AS QUENTA
Edelpappband (millimetre-binding) rebind  |
| Project #25 |
Project #25 ~ MARCH 2022
PART OF THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (Univ. Press 4TH IMP.)
BOUND AS AKALLABÊTH
Single section Bradel binding
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| Project #26 |
Project #26 ~ JUNE 2022
THE SILMARILLION, HarperCollins, 2006
Laced-on-boards rebind |
| Project #28 |
Project #28 ~ OCTOBER 2022
PART OF THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (Univ. Press 4TH IMP.)
BOUND AS SILM INDEX
Flexible-style (tight-back) rebind
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| Project #30 |
Project #30 ~ APRIL 2023
THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (Billing)
Library-style (split-board) rebind.jpg) |
| Project #32 |
Project #32 ~ MAY 2024
THE SILMARILLION, GA&U, 1977 (Billing)
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Project rate has slowed significantly in recent months and years; a mixture of increasing project complexity and other competing interests. Currently on project #35.
Also on SILMARILLION MINUTIAE
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