Birth of a Book: how a hardback book is made

Slightly Foxed have stepped aside from the ebook stampede to publish beautifully bound hardbacks that recall a bygone age -- and sell like hot cakes.

Watch Smith Settle bookbinders near Leeds bring one of their hardback books to life. Mesmerising.

By Glen Milner
Twitter: @glen_milner

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo...

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[Guxa]

I bet it's not that homemade nowadays!

[bettinaholbek]

It's beautiful :) anyone know the name of the music ?

[TheBostonterrierMino]

That was barely even a year ago

[Speak Love]

So much work goes into making a book, wow!

[ClothedByGrace]

Very nice

[baaroodii]

My dad does this for a living and I am currently learning the old methods of book binding and printing its all manual all the machines are man handled and require some skill next summer I will working at a book binding factory while I study my degree hope it works out well...

[David Oliveras]

Lovely 

[Carl Brong]

cool

[Dan Agarkov]

Awesome!

[FaithNature]

taken from Amazon, if like me, you are wondering what this book is about,

In 1921, in the wilds of the Malaysian jungle, a clutch of British children are being brought up by a Swiss nanny, with a monkey for a pet and deadly scorpions in the night nursery. From that eccentric childhood spent in Malaysia, the south of France, and only occasionally Britain, to her early years as a young news reporter in Algeria and Italy during Word War II, Suzanne St Albans has had an extraordinary life.

[Alvaro Cruz]

I saw this first on VIMEO !

Great Vid !