Criteria:
- Keyword = Fine Bookbinding
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ROLAND MEUTER, bookbinder. MAILLOL, Aristide. OVIDE.
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L'Art d'aimer.
Lausanne
les frères Gonin
1935
Bound by the Swiss bookbinder Roland Meuter, who still binds in his atelier in Weggis.More details Price: £4,200.00
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CLAES, Edgard. RUEDA, Salvador.
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La Copula.
Madrid
Libros Clan A. Graficas
2010
Exquisitely executed by the international prize-winning Belgian binder Edgard Claes (b. 1954), who is also a brother in the Order of the Holy Cross. The…More details Price: £5,600.00
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APULEIUS, Lucius.
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La Fable De Psyche, Figures de Raphael.
Paris
Caracteres de Henri Didot
1802
A grandly printed and illustrated edition. The binding is suitably splendid and is signed by both Petit and Le Comte. Flety notes that there were…More details Price: £3,200.00
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BICHON. PAUL-MARGUERITTE, Lucie. MARTIN, Charles.
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Le singe et son violon.
Paris
Albin Michel
1918.
« 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…More details Price: £1,750.00
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[TRAUTZ-BAUZZONET, Paris]. PHILIPPE, DUC D’ORLEANS.
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Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé.
[Paris
Quillau]
1718
A fine copy of a famous work with an impeccable provenance:
1) shaped leather-gilt bookplate of Quentin Bauchart; 2) printed bookplate of Robert Shackleton (Bodley’s Librarian…More details Price: £3,200.00 -
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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BARTA, Ladislas Laszlo. ARISTOPHANES.
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Lysistrata.
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Editions de la Cicogne
1932
More details Price: £900.00
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. HUGO JONES.
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Men at Work.
[2014]
More details Price: £585.00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, JOHN.
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Pervigilium Veneris. The Vigil of Venus.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1939
A beautiful and very limited edition. The process used gives an intensity to Buckland Wright’s gently erotic engravings. The text with its superbly balanced refrain…More details Price: £4,200.00
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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
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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
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KATE HOLLAND, designer bookbinder. OTTO.
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Return of the Crayfish (a Ghost Story).
Created in London
Otto, printed at Spike Island Printmakers, Bristol
2007
Kate Holland has been a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders for some years and is much in demand for her design bindings as well as…More details Price: £4,000.00
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SAYAKA FUKADA, designer bookbinder. WILDE, Oscar.
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Salome.
London
Folio Society
1957
Sayaka Fukada began her artistic life as a professional photographer in Japan. She is a superb and much sought after conservator and her superb designer…More details Price: £1,800.00
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DENISE LUBETT, designer bookbinder. LAWRENCE, T.E.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
London
Jonathan Cape
1935
Lubett’s sumptuous binding of TE Lawrence’s epic masterpiece was exhibited at ‘The art of the book William Morris and after 1892-1977’ in the Fitzwilliam Museum,…More details Price: £4,500.00