Black Cat Bindery

11/06/2026

The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This copy was published in 1950 by The Grey Walls Press, London.

Bound in duck egg blue leather with raised bands on spine with title/ author labels.



The embossing of black on coloured leather onlays is used for the artwork on the front cover, to evoke the image of Gloria Gilbert, the beautiful, enigmatic wife of Anthony Comstock Patch. She is a walking paradox, dazzling yet elusive, fiercely independent yet deeply aimless, and intoxicating to everyone around her. This uncanny image conjures up the hedonistic times of 1920’s glittering New York.



Delicate hand made marbled endpapers and hand sewn end bands complete this entrancing, bespoke, one off creation. The book comes with its own cloth covered protective slipcase.

10/06/2026

A bit of gold embossing on a small hand dyed leather book.

08/06/2026

The Beautiful and Damned by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Bound in full leather with coloured leather onlays The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in New York City, the novel’s plot follows a young artist Anthony Comstock Patch and his flapper wife, Gloria Gilbert, who wreck themselves “on the shoals of dissipation” while partying to excess at the dawn of the Jazz Age. As Fitzgerald’s sophomore novel, the work focuses on the swinish behavior and glittering excesses of the American idle rich in the mid-1910s heyday of New York’s café society. Wiki

02/06/2026

22/05/2026

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. Bound in leather with matching clamshell boxes

20/05/2026

Lord of the Rings bound in black leather with hand dyed leather onlays and gold embossing. Marbled endpapers and hand sewn end bands

20/05/2026

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien bound in dark green leather with leather onlays and black embossing

18/05/2026

Full leather binding with hand marbled endpapers, gilt edges, raised bands and gold embossing

15/05/2026

I’ve been thinking about this design for a while now and am rather pleased with how it has translated onto this set of Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Still plenty of work to do but thought I do a sneak peek.Bound in black leather with a hand dyed calf leather onlay with gold embossing. Simple but striking. What do you think? .

28/04/2026

Log book