diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
index 7c195f96e4..73a261b931 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/__init__.py
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ def option_parser(usage, gui_mode=False):
                       help=_('Add a header to all the pages with title and author.'))
     laf.add_option('--headerformat', default="%t by %a", dest='headerformat', type='string',
                         help=_('Set the format of the header. %a is replaced by the author and %t by the title. Default is %default'))
+    laf.add_option('--header-separation', default=0, type='int', 
+                   help=_('Add extra spacing below the header. Default is %default px.'))
     laf.add_option('--override-css', default=None, dest='_override_css', type='string',
                    help=_('Override the CSS. Can be either a path to a CSS stylesheet or a string. If it is a string it is interpreted as CSS.'))
     laf.add_option('--use-spine', default=False, dest='use_spine', action='store_true',
@@ -260,10 +262,11 @@ def Book(options, logger, font_delta=0, header=None,
         hb.append(header)
         hdr.PutObj(hb)
         ps['headheight'] = profile.header_height
+        ps['headsep']    = options.header_separation
         ps['header']     = hdr
         ps['topmargin']  = 0
         ps['textheight'] = profile.screen_height - (options.bottom_margin + ps['topmargin']) \
-                                                 - ps['headheight'] - profile.fudge
+                                                 - ps['headheight'] - ps['headsep'] - profile.fudge
         
     fontsize = int(10*profile.font_size+font_delta*20)
     baselineskip = fontsize + 20
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/lrf_single.ui b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/lrf_single.ui
index d17725d688..8ed4799342 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/lrf_single.ui
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/lrf_single.ui
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>866</width>
-    <height>671</height>
+    <height>679</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="windowTitle" >
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
           <item row="0" column="0" >
            <widget class="QStackedWidget" name="stack" >
             <property name="currentIndex" >
-             <number>0</number>
+             <number>1</number>
             </property>
             <widget class="QWidget" name="metadata_page" >
              <layout class="QHBoxLayout" >
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@
                    </property>
                   </widget>
                  </item>
-                 <item row="1" column="0" >
+                 <item row="2" column="0" >
                   <widget class="QLabel" name="label_10" >
                    <property name="text" >
                     <string>&amp;Header format:</string>
@@ -662,9 +662,26 @@
                    </property>
                   </widget>
                  </item>
-                 <item row="1" column="1" >
+                 <item row="2" column="1" >
                   <widget class="QLineEdit" name="gui_headerformat" />
                  </item>
+                 <item row="1" column="1" >
+                  <widget class="QSpinBox" name="gui_header_separation" >
+                   <property name="suffix" >
+                    <string> px</string>
+                   </property>
+                  </widget>
+                 </item>
+                 <item row="1" column="0" >
+                  <widget class="QLabel" name="label_29" >
+                   <property name="text" >
+                    <string>Header &amp;separation:</string>
+                   </property>
+                   <property name="buddy" >
+                    <cstring>gui_header_separation</cstring>
+                   </property>
+                  </widget>
+                 </item>
                 </layout>
                </widget>
               </item>
@@ -985,8 +1002,8 @@
              <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
 &lt;html>&lt;head>&lt;meta name="qrichtext" content="1" />&lt;style type="text/css">
 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style>&lt;/head>&lt;body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
-&lt;p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">&lt;/p>&lt;/body>&lt;/html></string>
+&lt;/style>&lt;/head>&lt;body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
+&lt;p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-family:'DejaVu Sans';">&lt;/p>&lt;/body>&lt;/html></string>
             </property>
            </widget>
           </item>
@@ -1078,12 +1095,12 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
    <slot>setDisabled(bool)</slot>
    <hints>
     <hint type="sourcelabel" >
-     <x>650</x>
-     <y>122</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
     <hint type="destinationlabel" >
-     <x>788</x>
-     <y>140</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
    </hints>
   </connection>
@@ -1094,12 +1111,12 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
    <slot>setDisabled(bool)</slot>
    <hints>
     <hint type="sourcelabel" >
-     <x>543</x>
-     <y>122</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
     <hint type="destinationlabel" >
-     <x>544</x>
-     <y>211</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
    </hints>
   </connection>
@@ -1110,12 +1127,12 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
    <slot>setEnabled(bool)</slot>
    <hints>
     <hint type="sourcelabel" >
-     <x>298</x>
-     <y>398</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
     <hint type="destinationlabel" >
-     <x>660</x>
-     <y>435</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
    </hints>
   </connection>
@@ -1126,12 +1143,12 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
    <slot>setEnabled(bool)</slot>
    <hints>
     <hint type="sourcelabel" >
-     <x>330</x>
-     <y>367</y>
+     <x>345</x>
+     <y>363</y>
     </hint>
     <hint type="destinationlabel" >
-     <x>823</x>
-     <y>372</y>
+     <x>837</x>
+     <y>435</y>
     </hint>
    </hints>
   </connection>
@@ -1142,12 +1159,28 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
    <slot>setDisabled(bool)</slot>
    <hints>
     <hint type="sourcelabel" >
-     <x>344</x>
-     <y>107</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
     </hint>
     <hint type="destinationlabel" >
-     <x>489</x>
-     <y>465</y>
+     <x>308</x>
+     <y>74</y>
+    </hint>
+   </hints>
+  </connection>
+  <connection>
+   <sender>gui_header</sender>
+   <signal>toggled(bool)</signal>
+   <receiver>gui_header_separation</receiver>
+   <slot>setEnabled(bool)</slot>
+   <hints>
+    <hint type="sourcelabel" >
+     <x>261</x>
+     <y>346</y>
+    </hint>
+    <hint type="destinationlabel" >
+     <x>379</x>
+     <y>378</y>
     </hint>
    </hints>
   </connection>