The Hobbit, Hand sewn and hand bound book, Illustrated by Alan Lee leather book I chose this phrase because

I chose this phrase because writing

Edges are marbled and marbled endpapers are unique because I did and selected the best one for this journal

As an endpaper I used marbled paper which I made and selected the best one for each journal

Please note that this book is hand-sewn on five cords and rebound using the traditional method

without using any machines

The Hobbit, Hand sewn and hand bound book, Illustrated by Alan Lee leather book I chose this phrase because*Please note that this book is Hand Sewn on five cords and rebound in the traditional method and not simply recovered* Hand sewn and hand bound 'The Hobbit'. I bound my book with high quality hand dyed Italian leather. The book is sturdy to hand down to the next generations because the pages were hand sewn. I did blind tooling decorations onto the book plates and spine. Title and author were gilded with 24K gold. I also added tooled leather bookmark