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Custom Book Boxes

Over the past three years, we have been sending out some of our heavily used and most precious rare books to a company called Octávaye owned by Wendy Ossoinig.

Ossoinig takes our book and creates custom made boxes for them. When a class comes to see Diderot‘s Encyclopedie book plates, we no longer haul out the rapidly deteriorating volumes hoping that the binding won’t split, the cover won’t detach, and that our foam wedges will provide enough support. We bring out this.

Here’s a more detailed example for our Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

Not only are the boxes lovely to look at, but they also protect the books. The boxes ensure that we can continue to show off our rare books to people of all ages.

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