Commemorative book order for special event

Commemorative Book for Special Event

School teacher Abi Seager of Bishopsgate School contacted Some Odd Pages for help with a class project. One of her students, Reuben, was moving to another city and the class wanted to make him a special commemorative book. With some easy guidelines from Some Odd Pages, Abi asked all the students for drawings, photos, artworks of any kind with a few words to Reuben and their signature. It didn’t take long at all to create the covers, title and binding for Rueben’s special book. The whole class presented their book to Reuben on the last day. Here’s what Abi said about the project:

Hi Meg, The book went down a storm! Everyone loved it. Reuben’s mum sent this message:

“Thank you so much for contributing to such a special book for Reuben. He was overjoyed and it made him so happy. Thank you for creating such a special memory.”

So as you can see she and I and the children are all very pleased with it. Thank you once again, I will certainly be back to create more books. Have a great summer, Abi

We love participating with groups on these projects. Nothing captures the unique gesture and special presence of your friends like their own hand writing. You don’t have to draw well to express yourself in a few scribbles and add your own words and images. It’s wonderful how the voice of each person really comes through and creates a really special memory.

The binding for a commemorative book isn’t expensive or complicated. Starting at £35 we provide some simple guidelines for making the pages. You deliver the prepared pages, your book is bound in a soft or hard covers with cover title and title page, and returned to you ready for presentation. Easy peasy and a lasting memory of the people and special events created in their own hand.

CONTACT the studio for more details and your idea for your own book.

Some Odd Pages Book Arts and Bindery

5.0

Based on 31 reviews

Ria F

10:26 02 Jul 24

We took my mum's beloved cookbook for repair as a surprise for her birthday. It has great sentimental value with an inscription on the inner cover, and Meg did a wonderful job bringing it back to life. From the initial enquiry, Meg has been fantastic – always quick to respond, and so helpful. Thank you for getting it done so quickly for us; my mum was really pleased!

Anthony Fordham

11:21 12 Mar 24

Meg has given new life to a much loved Atlas from the 1930's

Sarah Tourell

10:58 18 Jan 24

We have a very old and large burials register in the church that was falling apart. The spine had become completely detached from the pages and it was increasingly difficult to use as the pages kept falling out. A very kind and generous person contacted Meg and paid to have this book restored for us.Meg has done an absolutely superb job and the register has been sensitively and meticulously repaired. It took quite a long time because it required many stages to debind, clean, repair and rebind and it's a large register. We also now have a bespoke fitted external slide case to fit the final dimensions of the new binding in the same cloth finishing. So it was well worth the wait.Meg was extremely helpful and also provided a personal courier service when she was in the area, delivering the register safely back to us in person.Totally happy with the entire experience, would definitely recommend and use again without hesitation. Thank you.

Gian Roberto Ferrari

09:07 17 Jan 24

Meg has done a tremendous job in restoring a church’s graveyard register that is 100 years old and was falling apart and risking further damage while it was being inspected. It needed the care and attention that was actually given by this superb and expert book binder. She also made a slide-in box to safely store the register. Absolutely fantastic.

Laura Dun

08:15 27 Nov 23

I'm extremely pleased with the work done on three vintage 'Babar' books. I think the work was done with great skill and care, and the books are now in a condition to be used again with no fear of causing further damage. (One in particular was falling apart before.) Great job, I would definitely recommend. One more point: if you're having your book(s) sent back to you, it's worth noting that mine were really well packaged up.

William Baker

18:11 30 Jan 22

I am so delighted with the outstanding work that Meg has done on an important piece of family history. The address book, from a much loved holiday cottage, was in an advanced state of decay and without attention would have only been damaged further. Meg created a new binding with new cover entirely in keeping with the original, making assorted repairs and adding new pages to extend its life. It was a real pleasure to work with such an expert. Thank you Meg for your thoughtful and talented restoration of our treasure.