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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…

There is a later detail in blue ink on the interior stating ‘Wilkins’ which was either the owner or the name of the author.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Paul Geraldy’s beautiful, ‘naive’ poems following the course of a love affair first appeared in 1912.