South Shields is next to Newcastle - someone took this book across the border to avoid the library fees! 🤣🤣 And now you've taken it even further to give it an entirely new life!
If you ever visit Portland, Oregon make sure to set a couple hours aside to visit Powell's "City of Books" especially their rare book room. I think you'd enjoy it, it's a lot like the bookshop you bought this book from but slightly better catalogued.
@@FourKeysBookArts Oh if you're a fan of books you'd love Powell's! They have a very good online catelog of the books they have, including in the rare book room. Thank you for the video!
Your papermaking skills are so impressive. And wow it looks SO much sturdier and cleaner! Looks like it'll be preserved for another 150 years or so, thanks to you. Can't wait to see your cover design.
One of your videos popped up for me, and I've binge watched just about your whole catalogue. At work we keep tally books, recording information at various locations. We have used store bought notebooks, with hand drawn columns, and hand written header titles for years. In need of new books soon, having watched your videos, I decided to dive into creating custom tally books. I've just today completed the binding on the first one. As a first attempt, thanks to your videos, it turned out very well. It's a brown "leather" hardcover, hollow spine, with grey end papers, yellow accent pages, and yellow end bands (glued in, not sewn). I have to make a second one for another location, and already have family members asking to pay me to make journals for them, when I feel I'm ready for that. I'm 57 and, thanks to you, have discovered a new, very enjoyable endeavor. Thank you for your videos.
As absolutely chill as this videos are, I couldn't stop myself giggling gleefully or oohing and aaahing. These videos could be 3 hours long and I'd be enraptured the whole time. Please bring us the next one soon!! Congrats on your lovely vacation
Beautiful, super quality production as well. Love the different camera angles and the time taken to put it together beautifully. Waiting for part 2 ☺️👍
What you say is true! There's so many wonderful bookshops in Scotland. My favourite bookshop I came across was Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness. I picked up some lithographs of Jessie M. King's artworks there.
This just made my night! I want you to know your dune series has gotten me into book binding and leather working. It has been a blast, and thank you for being an inspiration
Your videos are so mesmerising, and it NEVER fails to make me run to watch them! The quality is top-notch and shows the amount of dedication, love and hard work you put in everything you bring out! Looking forward to the second part! Cheers
My new "comfort food" is watching videos of master crafspersons restoring beautiful old objects. So interesting to see how the process goes, the tools, the skills. I'm a new subscriber looking forward to Part 2 & a backlog of interesting & satisfying videos. Something to keep me calm in the storm!
I’m so happy to see a new video from you. I watch every single one you post since I’ve subscribed. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the binding process for this book!
I love the dictionary (?) as a convenient tear-off wastepaper block, at 9:30. I'm sure a bookbinders' supply store would charge plenty for something like that!
I love how peaceful are your videos, and how respectful is your work to the books, take the necessary time for each step and being cautious with every single page
I swear I could smell the shops in your clips. Love me a used bookstore! I'm always ecstatic to see a new vid from you. Not only are they incredibly informative, but you film and edit them so beautifully, and always have such lovely music selections!
The diagonal reference line got me laughing. Back in the punch card days we always took a sharpie and drew a diagonal line on the side of any card deck consisting of more than a few cards. If the deck were dropped that line was a life saver for getting the deck back in order. I got in only on the very tail end of working with punch cards. They were already obsolete, but it's amazing how many of those "obsolete" systems were still in service.
As I watch/listen to this video, I am working on my epic fantasy novel (20,000 words and counting). I only hope that someday a few hundred years from now, someone stumbles onto something I wrote and gives it a proper face lift. That is, assuming it wasn't already given a proper burial (ha!). I know you probably get this a lot, but as someone who is a huge literacy advocate, I cannot express my deep gratitude for the work you do. Admittedly, I read most of my books these days digitally, due mostly from a lack of available space, and convenience... still, you are a hero in every sense of the word.
Thank you, Dennis, absolutely absorbing. It’s fascinating to watch the process of stripping - or pulling as I now know - the book to its component parts, then the reassembly. Looking forward to Part 2.
When I was a kid, PBS or sometimes the old A&E channel would have how-to docus but I don't think any were as good as the work on this channel. You not only do all the binding work, but all the video work. It's so incredibly special and a joy to watch you in action. As AI and such is force on us, seeing the evidence of human achievement is humbling and important. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
I always run when I see a new 4 keys video dropped! I’m so excited for this series! What a beautiful souvenir to get from a trip overseas! Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
I love your videos. Cinematography, editing. Wonderfully done. I didn't know I enjoyed watching the book binding process until your videos. I think raw edges on this book gives it so much character and would look equally, if not more, attractive than trimmed edges. Thank you! Happy holidays
Glad you enjoyed the trip here Dennis and hope the family did as well. We do seem to have a large number of bookshops in Scotland and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that can't resist their pull.
I've been missing your videos, Dennis. Lovely to see you back with another fascinating project! You're off to a great start. Really looking forward to the next installments.
Maybe, but I'm wondering if the seam ripper would remain sharp for long enough. The heavier linen thread for binding - especially on this book - seems very sturdy. The hobby knife has the ability to quickly become sharp again (I believe the blade's designed to snap off at segments), so it ends up being a bit more practical overall. And, maybe I'm a bit clumsy but I'd have concern for the seam ripper inadvertently damaging the paper... I am forever getting poked by the stabby bit on mine!
😁 my grandfather gave me a 1764 copy of “ every man his own lawyer “ . I thought older books were possibly valuable but was informed “ the printing press has been around for a long time and this is basically a text book so there are lots of them “. I put it up in the barn and haven’t thought about it for 30 years. I loved reading the old English, the progress of law and was shocked by the brutal punishments for high treason ( privy member removed, bowels ripped out and burnt before his face, drawn, quartered and the remains to be dealt with as the king sees fit.) I should revisit it. I don’t know what the pages are made of, hemp? But they have not rotted away like modern paper.
Another amazing video. Really appreciated the comparison shot of the unburnished and burnished end papers. Can't wait for a new basics video, and the sequel to this one.
Always a pleasure in seeing one of your videos up. Can't wait to see the next part. Thanks for taking the time to do really great informative videos on this artform. I tried looking up classes in New Zealand where I live and got nothing. Might still have a go though
Couldn’t help but chuckle when i saw that old lithography stone you were using when burnishing the cover papers. Maybe you don’t know but lithography stones of that style are quite valuable. There are no more lithography stone manufacturers in the US anymore. So traditional lithographers will pay good money for a high quality stone. Just throwing that out there. Im not a lithographer myself. I’m a relief printmaker but i know a master a lithographer who would dropl over a stone that size
Oh I am quite aware. Litho stones are also cherished by bookbinders, as they have a number of properties that make them ideal for a number of bookbinding tasks. And what's more, my litho stone will last almost indefinitely, whereas actual lithography will, eventually, grind the stone to dust.
@ i’m glad you have a good use for it then. My lithographer friend got his current group of stones for free… by digging them out of a garden. Someone had put them in as stepping stones. Im assuming at the time they were placed they weren’t very valuable. Or the gardener just had no idea what they were.
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Congratulations, you now owe the South Shields Public Library 82,542.12 pounds.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Marvelous, simple marvelous!
What is this weird "." symbol you've written? Are you from the future? Our Pounds having Schillings in them! He owes £85,542 2s 4¾d
Just as I'd feared!😂
@@TonboIV I think it's metric now
I hope the folks in that book shop in Scotland get to see this.
That’s what I was thinking
We did 😇
@@megbishop638 yay!! I'm so glad to hear it
South Shields is next to Newcastle - someone took this book across the border to avoid the library fees! 🤣🤣 And now you've taken it even further to give it an entirely new life!
Rebinding fugitive books like this is often done in the Literary Witness Protection Programme.
@@DanielCoffey67 Nice 🤭
@@DanielCoffey67 🤣🤣🤣
If you want to show more video of your trip, my feelings wouldn’t be hurt.😁
Maybe - I shot sooo much footage its not even funny!🤣
I could be persuaded to watch that too---it is a lovely place and fits well with watching a soothing & fascinating video about restoring an old book.
My friends work in this bookshop!! I’ll be sure to share with them :)
If you ever visit Portland, Oregon make sure to set a couple hours aside to visit Powell's "City of Books" especially their rare book room. I think you'd enjoy it, it's a lot like the bookshop you bought this book from but slightly better catalogued.
Thanks for the recommendation. Yet another stop on my ever-growing book-travel itinerary!
@@FourKeysBookArts Oh if you're a fan of books you'd love Powell's! They have a very good online catelog of the books they have, including in the rare book room. Thank you for the video!
Oh, this is just what I need this evening! (UK time) Complete relaxation. Thank you!
Same! Just what I was thinking. After a long day at work, this is just what I need tonight :)
You're welcome 😊
Restoration of this quality is like the Baumgartner painting restorations, absolutely stunnning!
theres even japeness mulberry paper (washecoso) in both hehe
I was looking for this comment an I somehow completely missed it lmao
Brilliant!
Your papermaking skills are so impressive. And wow it looks SO much sturdier and cleaner! Looks like it'll be preserved for another 150 years or so, thanks to you. Can't wait to see your cover design.
1:52 Потрапити в подібні місця, тим хто любить свою справу, це все одно, що потрапити дитині в парк атракціонів 😊
One of your videos popped up for me, and I've binge watched just about your whole catalogue.
At work we keep tally books, recording information at various locations. We have used store bought notebooks, with hand drawn columns, and hand written header titles for years. In need of new books soon, having watched your videos, I decided to dive into creating custom tally books. I've just today completed the binding on the first one. As a first attempt, thanks to your videos, it turned out very well. It's a brown "leather" hardcover, hollow spine, with grey end papers, yellow accent pages, and yellow end bands (glued in, not sewn). I have to make a second one for another location, and already have family members asking to pay me to make journals for them, when I feel I'm ready for that.
I'm 57 and, thanks to you, have discovered a new, very enjoyable endeavor.
Thank you for your videos.
Boy I can’t wait for Adam Savage to mention your channel and for everything to blow up.
For a book this old it's surprising in what good conditions it was in, but you definitely gave it an even bigger lift.
I quite literally feel like an apprentice to your art and aspire to one day have your finesse with bookbinding.📚✨💜
As absolutely chill as this videos are, I couldn't stop myself giggling gleefully or oohing and aaahing. These videos could be 3 hours long and I'd be enraptured the whole time. Please bring us the next one soon!! Congrats on your lovely vacation
That's exactly what I thought! Thank you, Dennis!
Well Dennis, hope you enjoyed your Scottish trip, and I'm very much looking forward to this interesting project !
This is such a beautiful and mesmerizing craft. I want to be able to do this so bad.
That looked like a proper cup of tea. Top marks.
this is my favorite youtube channel. Man i'm serious please upload as often as you (feasibly and comfortably) can
Beautifully shot, edited and sound! I didn’t know book binding was so extensive.
Back to the Bindery! Always a grand time.
I love watching a master at work! Thank you for these videos!
I missed your videos. Just love your work. It is very relaxing to watch you work. I hope you have someone you are teaching this fine and amazing art!
Beautiful, super quality production as well. Love the different camera angles and the time taken to put it together beautifully. Waiting for part 2 ☺️👍
I was just at armchair books in March when I visited Scotland!! I'm so glad you liked the store too!
It's a great place - I'll have to make a return visit!
What you say is true! There's so many wonderful bookshops in Scotland. My favourite bookshop I came across was Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness. I picked up some lithographs of Jessie M. King's artworks there.
There really are! I was only able to visit so many; I wish I could have made it to all of them!
Thank you Dennis as always, informative, enjoyable and a pleasure to watch...
This just made my night! I want you to know your dune series has gotten me into book binding and leather working. It has been a blast, and thank you for being an inspiration
Your videos are so mesmerising, and it NEVER fails to make me run to watch them! The quality is top-notch and shows the amount of dedication, love and hard work you put in everything you bring out! Looking forward to the second part! Cheers
I love the smell of an old bookstore!
The haircut is my favorite part, can't wait
Thank you Denis for the new upload! They always brighten my day!!
So glad to see an update in your channel. You're one of my favourite content creators in TH-cam.
It's always a good day when Dennis brings us an update from the bindery
Its good to see a new project underway, i really enjoy your videos and strive to bind books at your level!
Amazing. I hope everyone enjoyed the trip. Great Video. Thanks again.
How I've missed seeing you pop up in my feed, Dennis!
This was just the video I needed this morning to calm me down after dealing with a very stressful phone call.
0:45 Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!
My new "comfort food" is watching videos of master crafspersons restoring beautiful old objects. So interesting to see how the process goes, the tools, the skills. I'm a new subscriber looking forward to Part 2 & a backlog of interesting & satisfying videos. Something to keep me calm in the storm!
I’m so happy to see a new video from you. I watch every single one you post since I’ve subscribed. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the binding process for this book!
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful video. Loved it. Thank you 🙏
I love the dictionary (?) as a convenient tear-off wastepaper block, at 9:30. I'm sure a bookbinders' supply store would charge plenty for something like that!
Too true! I believe it is a discarded SAT Study Guide.
This was so fun & relaxing to watch! Looking forward to part 2!
I love how peaceful are your videos, and how respectful is your work to the books, take the necessary time for each step and being cautious with every single page
I'm glad that I get to share a cup of tea while watching this.
I'm so excited for a new video! Welcome back!
Thank you! Glad to be back.
Man, your videos are always such a pleasure to watch! Shot and edited beautifully, and i liked the narration you did for this one!
Excellent video to watch while relaxing on my porch enjoying a cigar. Very much looking forward to the next video.
I swear I could smell the shops in your clips. Love me a used bookstore! I'm always ecstatic to see a new vid from you. Not only are they incredibly informative, but you film and edit them so beautifully, and always have such lovely music selections!
The diagonal reference line got me laughing. Back in the punch card days we always took a sharpie and drew a diagonal line on the side of any card deck consisting of more than a few cards. If the deck were dropped that line was a life saver for getting the deck back in order. I got in only on the very tail end of working with punch cards. They were already obsolete, but it's amazing how many of those "obsolete" systems were still in service.
As I watch/listen to this video, I am working on my epic fantasy novel (20,000 words and counting). I only hope that someday a few hundred years from now, someone stumbles onto something I wrote and gives it a proper face lift. That is, assuming it wasn't already given a proper burial (ha!). I know you probably get this a lot, but as someone who is a huge literacy advocate, I cannot express my deep gratitude for the work you do. Admittedly, I read most of my books these days digitally, due mostly from a lack of available space, and convenience... still, you are a hero in every sense of the word.
I totally know what you feel! I'm sending copies of my novel to agents soon, and it's so fun imagining it getting such a creative and caring binding.
Thank you, Dennis, absolutely absorbing. It’s fascinating to watch the process of stripping - or pulling as I now know - the book to its component parts, then the reassembly. Looking forward to Part 2.
What a beautiful project. I can't wait to see the next Vid.
Always enjoy your nature sneak peaks. Beautiful there.
When I was a kid, PBS or sometimes the old A&E channel would have how-to docus but I don't think any were as good as the work on this channel. You not only do all the binding work, but all the video work. It's so incredibly special and a joy to watch you in action. As AI and such is force on us, seeing the evidence of human achievement is humbling and important. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Love this! Thank you
Awesome video. Thanks
I love watching your videos, I was going through some kind of withdraw. Saving old books is close to my heart.
Hooray! I enjoy your work so much! Waiting the next video!
Looks like this will be quite a fun project!!
I always run when I see a new 4 keys video dropped! I’m so excited for this series! What a beautiful souvenir to get from a trip overseas! Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
My pleasure!
Marvelous! I'm so stoked to see another series like this. Your Dune videos were great fun 😊
Ive been waiting for a while video, love it keep it up.
I love your videos. Cinematography, editing. Wonderfully done. I didn't know I enjoyed watching the book binding process until your videos. I think raw edges on this book gives it so much character and would look equally, if not more, attractive than trimmed edges. Thank you! Happy holidays
These videos are always so satisfying and inspiring! I can't wait to see the next steps 😍📚
Looks great so far. Looking forward to the next steps.
Just found your channel….IMMEDIATELY subbed. What a hidden gem and you definitely deserve more subscribers 👍🏻
Thanks and welcome
Came originally when you released the Dune rebinding. Glad I stayed!
Fabulous, love to have a collection of those...
Glad you enjoyed the trip here Dennis and hope the family did as well.
We do seem to have a large number of bookshops in Scotland and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that can't resist their pull.
no no NO
I read part 1 and was really excited, but then I saw it was uploaded 2 days ago! Now I have to wait again
Scotland has some of the best scenery in the UK.
Truly breathtaking!
Lovely, as always. Thank you for sharing your work :)
Welcome back Dennis, hope you enjoyed your trip? We missed you
Love the Scotland link ;)
Canadian! Cool!
Gorgeous video work and a ton of great technical info, thank you so much for doing such a wonderful job
Pocos vídeos me relajan tanto como los suyos. Es Vd. un verdadero artista
I've been missing your videos, Dennis. Lovely to see you back with another fascinating project! You're off to a great start. Really looking forward to the next installments.
You could try using a seam ripper to remove the stitching, it'd be a lot more precise than a hobby knife
Maybe, but I'm wondering if the seam ripper would remain sharp for long enough. The heavier linen thread for binding - especially on this book - seems very sturdy. The hobby knife has the ability to quickly become sharp again (I believe the blade's designed to snap off at segments), so it ends up being a bit more practical overall. And, maybe I'm a bit clumsy but I'd have concern for the seam ripper inadvertently damaging the paper... I am forever getting poked by the stabby bit on mine!
I clicked on the video as soon as I saw it on my feed. Amazing work, as always! cannot wait for the next part :D
Great video
Welcome back! So happy to see a new video.
I love visiting this store every time i go to edinburgh
Hurray, a new Four Keys Book Arts video! 😃 I can't wait to see your full-body wellness and make over programme for this old book ^^
As always, this is entertainment that's mesmerizing! Your work truly exists at the junction of artistry, craftsmanship and sorcery. 😲😎📖🧙🙌
babe wake up four keys book arts just posted!
😁 my grandfather gave me a 1764 copy of “ every man his own lawyer “ . I thought older books were possibly valuable but was informed “ the printing press has been around for a long time and this is basically a text book so there are lots of them “. I put it up in the barn and haven’t thought about it for 30 years. I loved reading the old English, the progress of law and was shocked by the brutal punishments for high treason ( privy member removed, bowels ripped out and burnt before his face, drawn, quartered and the remains to be dealt with as the king sees fit.) I should revisit it. I don’t know what the pages are made of, hemp? But they have not rotted away like modern paper.
Another amazing video. Really appreciated the comparison shot of the unburnished and burnished end papers. Can't wait for a new basics video, and the sequel to this one.
Fascinating and relaxing
Always a pleasure in seeing one of your videos up. Can't wait to see the next part. Thanks for taking the time to do really great informative videos on this artform. I tried looking up classes in New Zealand where I live and got nothing. Might still have a go though
Thank you, another beautiful video!
Hey Dennis, nice to see you and your craftsmanship again! Much appreciated!
your videos are as inspiring and satisfying to watch as your craft is impressive and the results beautiful!
Couldn’t help but chuckle when i saw that old lithography stone you were using when burnishing the cover papers. Maybe you don’t know but lithography stones of that style are quite valuable. There are no more lithography stone manufacturers in the US anymore. So traditional lithographers will pay good money for a high quality stone. Just throwing that out there. Im not a lithographer myself. I’m a relief printmaker but i know a master a lithographer who would dropl over a stone that size
Oh I am quite aware. Litho stones are also cherished by bookbinders, as they have a number of properties that make them ideal for a number of bookbinding tasks. And what's more, my litho stone will last almost indefinitely, whereas actual lithography will, eventually, grind the stone to dust.
@ i’m glad you have a good use for it then. My lithographer friend got his current group of stones for free… by digging them out of a garden. Someone had put them in as stepping stones. Im assuming at the time they were placed they weren’t very valuable. Or the gardener just had no idea what they were.
of course I love watching this craft, but I also really admire your beautiful shots!
Never needed a video than I did today! Thank you Dennis!
aw, annotations are the best part of a used book.
I’m sure whatever you bind it in will be lovely, but it would be fun to see you do a red cloth binding like the original.