leather bound books have been signed by their creators for the last 210 years. The reasons for adding your name to a leather binding was initially to identify a higher grade of binding. In the early 19th century this changed to attractive advertising style paper labels. The binders name can be stamped to the edge of the inside cover or around the edge of the fly page . The name is often very small and difficult to identify. During the 19th and early 20th century London bookbinders started to introduce styles to bindings and it is just about possible to identify them even without the binders name.
There are a number of top book binders and these include Hatchards, Relfe, Ramage, Zangorski, Rivière, Bayton, Cedric Chivers, Stoakley, Morrell , Maclehose, Crosscup, Tevor Jones, etc...
A signed binding can increase the value of a book.
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