Comments on: Monty Meth’s Bookbinders https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:52:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Marysa de Veer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-261869 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:52:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-261869 A lovely article.

Thank you for sharing. As a new bookbinder fresh from Guildford College in 1993 I had the pleasure of visiting Zangorski and Sutcliffe’s in London before they were absorbed into what is now Shepherd’s Bookbinders.

Now more than 20 years on from being a start up bookbinder, the pleasure derived from my craft never ceases to inspire and bring great satisfaction to me. I feel so fortunate to find myself working in such a fulfilled way.

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260937 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:17:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260937 There are very few of us left who still practice the ancient techniques that Sangorski was the true Master of.

http://periodfinebindings.typepad.com/

]]> By: Moy Peralta https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260794 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:50:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260794 A beautiful post, much appreciated, and a privilege to see Monty Meth’s wonderful photos…

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260776 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:34:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260776 Mr Bray bound an original 1924 2-volume copy of The Book of The Queen’s Doll’s House for me in the 1970s. He used the same blocks and stamps for the binding decoration that Sangorski used to make the miniature books for the library in the doll’s house at Windsor Castle – there are curlicued MRs at every corner.

]]> By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260773 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:30:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260773 ancient craft –
spellbound by words
enshrined in leather

sprite

]]> By: Libby Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260688 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:50:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260688 I studied bookbinding for several years. It’s lovely to have these excellent photographs to remember all the highly skilled processes involved.

(In three years I managed to finish just four full-Morocco bindings – and those, of course, not even remotely of the quality seen in the photographs here. )

True craftsmen and women at work is a beautiful sight. It is a fine thing that these images can be shared again.

]]> By: Colin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260666 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:49:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260666 Although I never visited them, in a previous life I did get a small amount of binding done there. How nice to see pictures of a craft that even in the ’70s was only being carried out at this level of skill on an industrial scale at a handful of binderies.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260657 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:42:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260657 Yes, I’m a booklover too, have hundreds on my bookshelfs, especially old English Children’s Books – mostly with gilt edge and cloth binding!

Last weekend I visited the Leipzig Book Fair and “got lost” there … http://www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/

Books will be forever!!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260637 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:51:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260637 I know no frigate
Like a book
To bear me to seas
far away
Nor any Corsair
Like a a page
of prancing poetry

]]> By: valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/19/monty-meths-bookbinders/#comment-260609 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:44:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=109845#comment-260609 A very interesting read, hand bound books are so very special, and it is good to watch these skilled craftsmen working. Valerie

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