Sam Ellenport to Speak at the Museum of Printing on April 8

“A Book Binding Anomaly: Linked Spine Bindings”

http://www.museumofprinting.org/txp/events2

 I Salute You

Dear Sam,                                          

I am pleased indeed with the thorough workmanship which you had accomplished in rebinding my father’s precious old – but rather pathetic – book, the 1810 MacKenzie’s Voyages.

The full calf is just right, plain but handsome too, with its austere rules set off by the boards’ edging of gold tooling, almost like gauffered work; your selection of an old Stormont pattern marbled paper has the correctly archaic, yet restrained flavor – and a great improvement over the previous dull grey endpaper.

As always, it has been a pleasure to bring some challenges to Harcourt…  The MacKenzie would have pleased my father, I know, and I salute you, Sam

Yours sincerely,

Charlie