A few companies specialize in recreating the aesthetic of old books, and Gryphon Editions is one of them. CEO Dasha Stein and her husband Jeff tell me that most leather-bound-book companies are gone.

Book covers can reveal more about text and material history, says rare ... From leather to brass, UChicago Library exhibition judges books by their covers. By Clare Austen-Smith Mar 22, 2022. Book ...

In that post on Talking Covers, Sean Manning’s terrific (and sadly defunct) book-design blog, you can see the progression of Louie’s designs for Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” one of the ...