The Hobbit, Hand sewn and hand bound book, Illustrated by Alan Lee ted nasmith I also marbled the edges

I also marbled the edges of the text block to match the endpapers

On the center plate

This journal opens smoothly and is easy to write in

I bound my journal with quality leather

The Hobbit, Hand sewn and hand bound book, Illustrated by Alan Lee ted nasmith I also marbled the edges*Please note that this book is Hand Sewn on five cords and rebound in the traditional method and not simply recovered* Hand sewn and hand bound 'The Hobbit'. I bound my book with high quality hand dyed Italian leather. The book is sturdy to hand down to the next generations because the pages were hand sewn. I did blind tooling decorations onto the book plates and spine. Title and author were gilded with 24K gold. I also added tooled leather bookmark