Owl Bookbinding Ltd

Owl Bookbinding Ltd Bespoke individual books a speciality. From Print to Binding. From your initial thoughts we can help to produce from your files the print to the final binding.

Set in the heart of Suffolk Owl Bookbinding was set up through a passion for books and expertise gleaned from working in the print industry. We can restore the family bible, repair any torn pages and return it back to its original glory. Books can be bound in variety of styles and almost endless options of leather and cloth. We can foil block titles to spines and front boards, gold tooling to spin

es, add gilt edges for that extra special finish. And to keep your book safe for prosterity we can produce a bespoke box lined in velvet cloth. The unusual our speciality....

12 volumes of the works of Doctor Johnson published in 1824, rebound with new boards, leather spines and corners. New le...
30/04/2024

12 volumes of the works of Doctor Johnson published in 1824, rebound with new boards, leather spines and corners. New leather labels and hand tooling.

Slightly overdue library book with a receipt tucked inside. £12.50 for five days bed and breakfast!!
26/01/2023

Slightly overdue library book with a receipt tucked inside. £12.50 for five days bed and breakfast!!

Single colour and two colour gold foiling. Rebound damaged first editions.
23/01/2023

Single colour and two colour gold foiling. Rebound damaged first editions.

One of those little pieces of history that has managed to survive. 122 year old note book carried by a soldier during on...
09/11/2022

One of those little pieces of history that has managed to survive. 122 year old note book carried by a soldier during one year of the Boer War. Sympathetically restored and a new bespoke box to keep it in.

Something a little different. 26 false spines to cover two cupboard doors. Cleaned the old leather off, gold blocked the...
17/03/2022

Something a little different. 26 false spines to cover two cupboard doors. Cleaned the old leather off, gold blocked the new grained leather and hand numbered.

Published in 1771 ‘The Builders Pocket Treasure’ everything a Georgian builder needed to know about building constructio...
06/02/2022

Published in 1771 ‘The Builders Pocket Treasure’ everything a Georgian builder needed to know about building construction. Pages repaired,re-sewn, full bound in leather, dyed and finished with gold tooling and a leather label.

As another year comes to an end a compendium of Dickens Christmas stories seems an apt book to finish on. Re-backed with...
23/12/2021

As another year comes to an end a compendium of Dickens Christmas stories seems an apt book to finish on. Re-backed with new leather, dyed to match original boards and the title gold blocked.

‘From £5/ to £95/ prices in 1937 for a motorcycle. Some great British Motorcycle Manufacturers names from the past. Iss...
28/07/2021

‘From £5/ to £95/ prices in 1937 for a motorcycle. Some great British Motorcycle Manufacturers names from the past.
Issues of Speedway News sewn and bound into one volume.

A small relic of the Cold War. A little Polish/English pocket dictionary printed in Czechoslovakia in the 1950’s issued ...
29/06/2021

A small relic of the Cold War. A little Polish/English pocket dictionary printed in Czechoslovakia in the 1950’s issued by the Joint Services School of Linguistics. A very well traveled little book throughout the old eastern bloc.

Perhaps one consolation (?) of the pandemic is the chance some people have taken to write their memoirs. These books wer...
22/06/2021

Perhaps one consolation (?) of the pandemic is the chance some people have taken to write their memoirs. These books were produced from artwork to printed sheets and then to the finished book. Bound in red buckram with gold blocked titles to the front board and spine, head and tail bands plus page marker ribbon. With laminated dust jacket as the finishing touch. Printing aside all produced by hand.

From Horses in the 1700’s to Sherman ‘Crab’ Flail tanks in WW2 a scarce copy of the history of the 22nd Dragoons. The ol...
18/06/2021

From Horses in the 1700’s to Sherman ‘Crab’ Flail tanks in WW2 a scarce copy of the history of the 22nd Dragoons. The old spine lining and glue were removed, pages repaired and sections re-sewn. Glued and re-lined. The case was made from new boards and covered in cloth closely matching the original. The old gold blocking scanned and new artwork produced to allow new foil blocks to be made.

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Mill Green
Stowmarket
IP146DA

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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+441449710401

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