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Typeset and full leather binding of Agatha Christie's The Murder At The Vicarage I made for a friend. Text taken from the internet archive with typeset modeled off an early edition and printed on cream 120gsm paper. Self marbled endpapers in Stormont and Shell patterns with copper veining. I used silk buttonhole twist for the headbands, and leather inlay for the covers. Labels custom printed by Asterisk Books and Labels.

Overall I'm very pleased with the project and how cohesive the final look is. This was my first time doing a full leather binding and the turn-ins gave me some difficulty, I've definitely learned a lot about what not to do for the future. Cutting the inlays was quite challenging and you can see that on the back cover I cut one of them too small and had to shim a second piece in. I also skived my label overly aggressively and nicked a small hole in it.

Recently bought a horrendously expensive printer and have started printing out typesets I've made. This is the first book with words I've ever bound. (yes, it's fanfic.) I think the width of my spine cloth is little wide but I didn't have enough marbled paper to make it narrower. The endbands and ribbon also don't perfectly match the cover but those were the colors I had available. I'm very happy with how flush the text block sits in the cover and how well it opens even though my attempt at rounding the spine was less than ideal. In the future I'd like to add titles to the spines of my books but do not currently have heat stamping equipment and am concerned about the durability of non inset paper labels.