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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. OLD STILE PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. ~ 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 -
[MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole. ~ Rabelais. Paris Calmann-Lévy 1929
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…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
DÉZÉ, Louis. LOUYS, Pierre.
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Sanguines.
Paris
Philippe Renouard for Eugene Fasquelle
1903
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…More details Price: £2,200.00 -
CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. LAO TZU. GILES, Lionel. ~ Sayings of Lao Tzu. [London c.1995].
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…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
DE LÉOTARD, Geneviève, bookbinder. COLETTE. ~ Sept Dialogues de Bêtes. Paris Les Arts et le livre 1927
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…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
BIRD & BULL PRESS. CAMPBELL, Gregor R.
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Son of the Bookbinder. With an appendix showing samples of some of the finest bookcloths manufactured today.
Newtown, PA
Bird & Bull Press
2004
Written by the bookbinder Gregory Campbell, the son of Allan Campbell who founded the Campbell-Logan Bindery in 1949 which binds so many fine press books…More details Price: £400.00
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DE NERVAL, Gerard. CLOUZOT, Marianne. DESMULES, R. ~ Sylvie. Paris Marcel Lubineau 1944
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…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
STEPHEN CONWAY, designer bookbinder. DUNNING, John & POE, Edgar Allan. ~ The Bookman's Wake; with the Raven. New York & London Scribner & Folio Society 1995
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…More details Price: £2,800.00 -
DOVEY, Gaven. BASKIN, Leonard. HECHT, Anthony. ~ The Gehenna Florilegium. Maine Gehenna Press 1998
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…More details Price: £8,500.00 -
STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una] ~ The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower. [Los Angeles] Imprenta Glorias 1988
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,…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George. ~ 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: £2,000.00 -
SMITH, Philip, bookbinder. TOLKEIN, J.R.R. ~ The Lord of the Rings. I. The Fellowship of the Ring; II. The Two Towers; III. The Return of the King. London George Allen & Unwin [1968]
A spectacular design by Philip Smith which he conceived as a whole, stretching across the entire binding using Smith’s patented ‘maril’ (marbled inlaid leather) technique…More details Price: £7,500.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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 -
PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. DINE, Jim. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. ~ The Poet Assassinated. London Rupert Hart-Davies 1968
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GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope. ~ The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse. Newtown Gregynog Press 1935
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish…More details Price: £500.00 -
ESSLEMONT, David. GENTLEMAN, David. ~ The Wood Engravings of David Gentleman. Montgomery David Esslemont 2000
With an introduction by Fiona Maccarthy.
Inserted loose is a letter from David Esslemont presenting this first special copy which describes his binding process:
“My design is…More details Price: £2,200.00 -
HANNAH BROWN, designer binding. TORMIS, Veljo. ~ The Word Was Sung/Lauldad Sona. Tallinn published for the Estonian Designer Bookbinders by Trukikoda Folger Art 2008
Printed in both Estonian and English, transcribed using recordings and notes by Urve Lippus.
Hannah Brown is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and a…More details Price: £4,000.00 -
ERI FUNAZAKI & DANNY FLYNN, book artists. ~ Theatre Dog. ff [Flynn & Funazaki] 2013
The text is an excerpt from a play involving two dogs having a heated conversation about their daily life (ie waiting to be told where…More details Price: £1,200.00