The Coral Island Bookbinding

My last prototype. I bought this book in London about one month ago at Skoob Books, close to Euston Station. I remember reading the story a long time ago, when I was a child, and enjoying it. But now I am more interested in the edition. It is a nice old edition by Collins Clear –Type Press of the thirties. I had the idea of using the cover to make a particular notebook for myself, and at the same time to offer in the future to those who had nice old books and still want to use the covers for something else. This is the result of the experiment. Six signatures of five folios each, with a sewing headbands, with waxed thread cotton in red and brown. A pocketed accordion made with a book background paper. The use: not to lose tickets, bills, etc. The end-paper as usual for me painted with paste. The spine was a little weak, and I decided to reinforce it with some Bristol paper inside and tinted ribbon outside. Two holes in the outside part of the back cover to introduce an elastic band to close the book with dark brown pebbles and a third hole to keep a pen or pencil with a ribbon. The end product looks like this.