Whether binding a new book or rebinding an old one, Andrew uses the best quality materials available and employs traditional hand-binding techniques, as used by bookbinding craftsmen for centuries.

Features of Andrew's bindings include:

• all covers constructed from acid-free high density millboard
• archival quality vegetable-tanned calf or goatskin bookbinding leathers, often hand-dyed in house
• hand-marbled papers used in endpapers and sidings
• hand-sewn silk endbands
• page edges gilded where appropriate
• text blocks re-sewn where existing sewing failed or weak
• all titling and decoration undertaken by hand using traditional gold tooling methods and 23 carat English gold leaf. See Gold Finishing.