Few items in the home are as ubiquitous, and as unexamined, as the bindings around our books. We line books up on a shelf, pile them on the nightstand, arrange them for display on coffee tables. But ...

Stocking up on hand-sewn, leather-bound notebooks no longer requires a trip to Venice as the ancient skills are still being practised at Barbara Hubert’s alluringly Dickensian bookbindery on Tobin ...