General Book Binding - Collis Bird & Withey

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General Binding

Case Binding

We have a range of colours and materials to make a special book in whatever size you want.

Photographs, letters, your favourite novel, sketch book - it's only down to your imagination.

Less than A4 and landscape A4

3 days service	£45
2 days	£55
1 day	£65

Simple lettering on spine included - up to 40 characters
Front lettering - £8 per line (up to 40 characters)
Over 200 pages - plus £5 per 100 pages

Larger than A4

To be quoted individually - from £75

Magazines and Newspapers

We bind everything from broadsheet newspapers to fanzines. Why not have your collection of magazines preserved in a special binding of your choice.

Includes gold lettering on the spine - name, year, volume number.

A4 size	£50
Tabloid	£60
Broadsheet	£80

Up to 5cm thick, over 5cm add £10 per 1cm

To be quoted individually - from £75

Discount for quantities

Facsimile Bindings

Reproduce sympathetic to the original in new cloth or leather.

Cloth
New / straightforward	from £50
Old / complicated	from £60

Leather
Quarter / half binding	from £150
Full leather	from £250

Restoration

Our book restorer and fine binder is Nick Collis Bird who trained under Arthur Johnson at the London College of Printing. He is a fellow and Past President of the Institute of Bookbinding and Allied Trades (IBAT) with over 30 years experience.

A typical restoration will include re-stitching, repairing corners, replacing the linings and refitting the original spine if still in existence, to match the original book as closely as possible.

Cloth	from £80
Leather	from £150