Clamshell box

2 volumes:
Coronation edition
Book of Common Prayer
Holy Bible

full leather (Harmatan goat) covered clamshell boxes; sides covered in handmade pastepapers with gold leaf onlays; boxes
lined in watercolor paper

 

 

miniature reback & clamshell box | calfskin rebinding | calfskin reback | 18th C model
reback, Japanese paper | reback, Japanese paper and leather | limp vellum | board switch
renovation removal | reback, tightback | repairing repairs | historic rebinding
publisher's bindings | the unback | clamshell box | reback, with hollow