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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…

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…

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 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…

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…

A classic of the genre of bindings produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.

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…