The Bindery · 76 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1JU · Monday to Friday by appointment
Contemporary designs
For over a hundred years Sangorski & Sutcliffe has been rebinding important works of literature and other fine books in one-off ‘Design Bindings’.
We specialise in rebinding books that have lost their original covers but are in otherwise good condition.
The combination of modern designs and the finest craftsmanship produces exciting and unique examples of the bookbinder’s craft.
Grahame, Kenneth. London: Methuen, 1908. First edition.
Bound in duck egg blue goatskin with three shades of green leather onlays to form a grass pattern, onlays in brown and tan leathers for the images of Mole and Toad, and dark blue dragonflies circling above.
Blixen, Karen. London: Putnam, 1937. First edition.
Bound in dark brown goatskin, with an abstract pattern of ‘Zebra’ stripes, onlaid in white calf, that stretch across both boards and spine.
David, Elizabeth. John Lehmann, [1951]. First edition.
Bound in terracotta goatskin, with culinary images hand-tooled in gold leaf with gouges over onlays of black goatskin.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First English edition.
Bound in red goatskin, with powerful images of the two contrasting faces created with fillets and small pallets in gold leaf.
Orwell, George. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition.
Bound in red goatskin, with the late 20th century symbol of a barcode onlaid in black goatskin across the boards and spine.
Fleming, Ian. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition.
Bound in orange goatskin, with a dramatic black leather onlay of a reclining woman covering the spine and boards.
Hammett, Dashiell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition.
Bound in green goatskin with an ‘Art Deco’ lozenge shaped pattern blocked in black foil across the boards and spine.
Woolf, Virginia. London: published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition.
Bound in dark green and tan goatskin, with a flower design running across both the boards and spine in red, green, pink, yellow, brown and white calf onlays.
‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself’
Doyle, Arthur Conan. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition in bookform.
Bound in dark brown goatskin, with a dramatic design covering both the boards and spine that has been hand-tooled in gold leaf with fillet wheels and pallets in several thicknesses.
Chandler, Raymond. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First UK edition.
Bound in orange goatskin, with dramatic red and black leather onlays across both boards, title and author blocked in gold leaf.
We also make leather entry slipcases and decorative boxes. Several of the bindings above, including Goldfinger and Out of Africa, are housed in leather entry slipcases.
Boxes and slipcasesEnquiries
To enquire about our full range of services, please contact the Managing Director, Alison Strachan, or Daniel Wray, who is in charge of the Conservation & Restoration Department.