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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. RED FOX PRESS & FRANTICHAM BOOKS.
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Los Angeles Palm Trees.
Achill Island, Ireland
Rex Fox Press
2014
The binding statement declares: Through my choice of materials, design and structure I sought to capture the essence of the scenes depicted within the book.…More details Price: £5,200.00 -
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[BOUND FOR BUMPUS LTD]. VALE PRESS. SHELLEY.
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Lyrical Poems of Shelley.
London
Printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts and sold by Hacon & Ricketts
1898
Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street was a department store which sold bindings with its own signature on the turn-in but which were actually bound by…More details Price: £450.00 -
BARTA, Ladislas Laszlo. ARISTOPHANES.
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Lysistrata.
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Editions de la Cicogne
1932
More details Price: £900.00 -
PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. HUGO JONES.
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Men at Work.
[2014]
More details Price: £585.00 -
DE COSTER, Germaine & DUMAS, Hélène. DUFY, Raoul. DERYS, Gaston.
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Mon Docteur le vin.
Paris
Draeger Frères
1936
A fabulous binding on an excellent book describing all the benefits of wine from preventing obesity, giving vitamins, curing typhus, depression, appendicitis, diabetes and helping…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
ALLIX, Susan.
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MYTH. Myths of the Greeks selected from Accounts by Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Aeschylus, Ovid & others.
London
Susan Allix
2011
An extraordinary piece of work for which Susan Allix won the Judge's Choice award at the Oxford Fine Press Fair in 2012.
The artist combines accounts…More details Price: £4,250.00 -
PHILIP SMITH, designer bookbinder.
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Non-Duality, As It Is. As seen by Philip Smith.
Written out in this form at Yatton Keynell
October 2006.
Philip Smith was one of the greatest British bookbinders of the 20th century and was well-known for inventing several techniques including the ‘lap-back’ structure which…More details Price: £2,400.00 -
ERI FUNAZAKI & DANNY FLYNN, book artists and designer bookbinder.
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One & Two.
ff[Funazaki & Flynn]
2011
“The prose by Flynn involves a sad battle of wits and the humorous missed communications between a man and a woman. Illustration of the urban…More details Price: £1,300.00 -
BIRKENRUTH, Johanna.
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Pair of leather bookends.
London
89 Cromwell Road
c.1897
Johanna Birkenruth (1853-1929), began binding around 1888 and was a fascinating example of an enterprising, independent woman of the time who made a living out…More details Price: £1,000.00 -
NICKY OLIVER, designer bookbinder. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Pasiphae.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1950
Nicky Oliver’s design notes read: Pasiphae: the immortal daughter of the sun god Helios, wife of King Minos of Crete. Legend has it that her…More details Price: £3,500.00 -
RICKETTS, Charles. DE TABLEY, Lord.
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Poems Dramatic and Lyrical by John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley.
London & New York
Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Macmillan & Co
1893
With the bookplates of Sir John Leslie of Glasnough Castle and his son Shane Leslie who has added an ink inscription “Shane Leslie, in Limerick,…More details Price: £500.00 -
PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. OLD STILE PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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Pyramus and Thisbe.
Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2003
Jones has taken this tale from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and reflected the story - particularly noticeable in his use of opaque acrylic to represent…More details Price: £3,250.00 -
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. JAN CAMPS, bookbinder.
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Semaine des ames du Purgatoire.
c.1890
J.-J. Camps is a remarkable bookbinding studio run by Jan and Julia Camps in Belgium. Together and separately they have won many bookbinding competitions both…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
JAPANESE PAPER. KUME, Yasuo.
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Tesuki Washi Shuho: Fine Handmade Papers of Japan.
Tokyo
Yushodo
1980
A tremendous and detailed documentation of traditional Japanese papermaking describing each different areas of papermaking and their history and methods, together with an abundance of…More details Price: £2,600.00 -
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ITALIAN DECORATIVE BINDING. [DRUMMOND, Henry].
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The Greatest Thing in the World: An Address.
London
Hodder and Stoughton
1912
A book on the greatest thing in the World - Love - affectionately inscribed in memory of a visit to Bath in 1912.
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ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George.
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The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English.
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1957
Together with the two original metal blocks used to blind-tool the letters A and Z.
The binding is unsigned but comes with a letter from The…More details Price: £2,900.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas.
Gregynog Press
1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £450.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £400.00 -
GIANNINI, Giuseppe.
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The Masterpieces of Van Dyck.
London & Glasgow
Gowans & Gray
1908
A classic of the genre of bindings produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.More details Price: £390.00 -
HAEIN SONG, designer bookbinder. CAMUS, Albert.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
London
Hamish Hamilton
1971
Camus' philosophical essay compares the absurdity of man's life with the Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology, who was condemned to repeat forever the same…More details Price: £1,700.00
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