Kate Levy
Conservation Technician for Special Collections
Harvard Library Preservation Services

A small, blue, hand-dyed leather bound book with small silver dots in the shape of constellations.

Guy’s Elements of Astronomy

Handbound book

Materials used: goatskin hand dyed by the binder, dyed leather hinges, edges sprinkled with acrylic paints, leather wrapped endbands, title and tooling through foil, pastedown paper handmade by the binder and dyed with indigo.

School / Unit

Central Administration