City & Guilds Level 3 - Springback/Ledger Binding - 2026 (tbc)

City & Guilds Level 3 

Springback / Ledger Binding

Dates: tbc 2026  (6 days) 

An optional assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum. 

A ledger or springback binding has a robust structure that was developed in the early nineteenth century for record books which needed to open perfectly flat for clerks to fill in columns using the whole page.  The account book is sewn on heavy webbing, and has cloth-jointed endpapers.  With decorated edges, a calf-lined spine, its laminated flanges are inserted into split boards, and a thick moulded spine creates the springback to throw the pages open.  It is usually covered in reverse calf, goatskin, or vellum in a half binding.  Students wishing to attend this course should have completed the equivalent of C&G Level 2 in Bookbinding.

All images shown are of students' work completed on a course (with permission).

Please contact administrator Wendy Lagden on wl@bookbinding.co.uk after any course payment has been made.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Dominic Riley

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

We must be informed of any cancellations at least two weeks prior to the commencement of the course.  If we are not informed in this time, a £50.00 administration charge will be levied up to 48 hours before the commencement of the course.  After this time no refunds will be given.  Whilst every effort is made to avoid cancellation or postponement of courses.  Shepherds Bookbinders Ltd reserve the right to cancel or postpone a course, and will endeavour to give at least 5 working days' notice before the start date.  In these circumstances a full refund will be made, but we cannot be held responsible for any consequential loss.