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Paul Tronson

Paul Tronson

Period Fine Bindings
Prop Master

Victoria, Canada

Member Since:
February 2012
Last online:
> 2 weeks ago
Invites sent:
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About Paul

I have been a traditional bookbinder for 45 years, and self employed Master Bookbinder and conservator for 36 years, and in that time I have had great success slowly re-introducing traditional bookbinding back to it's rightful place, as an art form. I have re-located my workshop from the UK to Victoria BC,Canada.

My late uncle Bob was a very accomplished film and tv director/writer, his television work included The Avengers, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, The Darling Buds of May etc....He also gave Sean Connery his first big break as 007 (put in a "word" for him apparently ;).....Here's his bio for those interested.

Unique traits: No-one in the world does work like mine (so I've frequently been told) :)

Gender:
Male
Height:
6'
Weight:
225
Body type:
Average
Hair:
Short
Hair color:
Silver
Eyes:
Blue
Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Just a few of the tools to give you a scope of the work involved :)
I'm just completing the gilding for this years Grimoire commission and was thinking if I was a script writer this could make an amazing spooky film as it is called "The Grimoire of God". I thought it just maybe the follow up film to Mr. Polanski's Ninth Gate (which I also create in a genuine 17thC style).....only far more serious! All of the tooling is created with only pallets and gauges. A pallet is a straight lined tool of different sizes, and a gauge is a curved tool of different sizes....ie a circle is formed of 4 impressions of 1 half circle gauge. It's called The Grimoire of God because the recto (front) cover contains the Sigillum dei Aemeth...created by the 16thC Magician and physican to Queen Elizabeth I Dr.John Dee, from the description given by the Archangel Uriel to Edward Kelly....also known as "The Booke of Enoch"....The Aemeth sigillum reveals or conceals the greatest name of God that can undo creation....and supposedly being factual .....the film Warlock has the same theme but this is real and all the seals are actual and not made up. Also present are the 4 Cardinal Angels and the main pentacles and Olympic Spirits from The Greater Key of Salomon...or The Clavicle. The verso side of the book though is a complete mirror image of the front except it contains the Sigillum dei Lucifer, the 4 Cardinal Demons and the main demonic Kings, Duke's Earl's and Marquis' of Hell....or most of the 72 fallen angels. There are also present 56 of the 72 Hebrew names of God, the angelic and demonic Lamens, plus the true names of the 7 Archangels who stand before the Lord at the End of Days and the common names they are known by. A Latin versicle embraces the whole of the book around the outside edges, the inside and the very edges of the boards are hand lettered in Latin also....,., Just an idea I'd thought I'd share :)
Sequence of tooling the Aemeth Sigillum

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Credits

  • Nonus Porta

    Nonus Porta (2013)
    Film (short) by Jim Knox Actor My late wife Margaret Stead produced this short clip which was directed by award winning film maker John Knox.

Awards

  • I don't do what I do to be honoured or awarded, the fact that someone once referred to me as "A smart arsed bookbinder who can actually perform miracles and has taken the craft back to it's highest level" is more than reward and recognition for me.

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