JILL PROLE, designer bookbinder. ~ The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Frontispiece and seven other full page colour illustrations by Mark Smith. 8vo., bound by Jill Prole in 2011/12 in full grey morocco with dna string design in blink across both covers and circles, lines and stars tooled in metallic blue, silever an gold and red and onlaid lines and semi circles of white, red, blue, brown and black morocco, representing space and the elements, the stars and circles are tooled in a wave across the black endpapers, edges black with flecks of several colours, spine lettered in black, housed in the original silver sparkling black cloth solander box lined in velvet with black morocco and silver lettered spine label. In superb condition.
A very accomplished bookbinding by Jill Prole which won the J. Hewit & Sons prize in the 2012 Designer Bookbinding Competition. It was exhibited in the annual prize exhibition in 2013 and since then has been in a private collection.
Jill Prole is a noted British bookbinder who has been a professional for nearly 40 years and who, with Rachel Ward-Sale, set up Bookbinders of Lewes in 1992.