I have long been a fan of THE NEW BOOKBINDER, since its first issue with Roger Powell on the cover. The honor of writing a short essay for the journal, aside from being a humbling process of recollection, has garnered me some new friends. Its nearly impossible to sum up large pieces of a lifetime’s work or even to describe the insights, tricks, sudden moves and revelations that one gets from working, talking with other binders, and, of course, following […]

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