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« Combien d’hommes se marient sans savoir ce qu’est une femme ! Combien ont procédé avec elle comme le singe de Cassan avec son violon…

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.…

The artist combines accounts of Greek Myths with an interpretative series of portraits of people who characterise and might inhabit the stories. The book is…

“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…

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,…

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…

Lucie Meyer, later Edgar-Faure, (1908-1977) was from Alsace. On the guidance of her uncle, Julien Cain, she studied History of Art at the Sorbonne and…

An excellent signed example of Dézé’s accomplished, if not always tasteful, moulded leatehr bindings on the first edition of Pierre Louy’s first collection of stories.
Louis…

The calligrapher notes that help has been given with the Chinese characters from Clive Clunas at the V & A Museum.
Lao Tzu was the first…

Geneviève de Léotard 1899 was a precocious book artist. She began studying bookbinding at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1912 when she…

Semi-autobiographical, Nerval’s story is of three lost loves. Proust style (in fact Proust was a great fan of the book), a paragraph in the newspaper…

The Bookman’s Wake is a murder mystery set in the world of Private Presses and printers. The story revolves around the search for a very…

A remarkably fine binding by Gavin Dovey who, after training the UK, set up shop in the US in 2004 and now works as a…

The imprint of Gloria Stuart, possibly best known for her role as the elderly Rose in the film Titanic. She began printing late in life,…

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…

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…

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…