Introduction

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Ex Libris Design evolved out of Ex Libris Press, a design and fine art and commercial printing company founded in 1995.

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Books. The making of books, from conception to the delivery for the client. The smell of books, old ones, leather bound, that have been on shelves in libraries, some of them for hundreds of years and new ones, just off the press, ink not quite dry yet, has always thrilled. How they are bound, what paper has been used, who the craftsmen that worked on them were but most of all who has read them.

From the very old to the very new, packaged for sale without a cover.

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