The Indomitable Servant
bound by Mel Jefferson

Feathered leather onlays (back-pared/recessed), blind debossing, inkjet printing and airbrushed dyes.

Drop-back box in black buckram and grey Windmill paper.

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The Royal Game of the Goose
bound by Derek Hood



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Cicero's Orations
bound by Dimitris Koutsipetsidis

Bound in Harmatan Valencia leather. Laced-in boards. Surface gilding in 22 carat gold. Gilt (22 carat) onlays. Initials tooled in gold (22 carat. Handsewn endbands in silk thread. Hand-marbled endleaves. Custom clothbound case with velvet paper interior. Interior leather joints.

Cicero and the events and identity of Rome are intertwined. The design should emit a sense of splendor, novelty, but also of distortion and transformation. The river symbolizes the gradual transformation of the Roman republic (wide beginning at the back cover) to civil strife and power accumulation by ambitious individuals which led to the decline of the Senate (narrower part of the spine), eventually leading to an empire with a single dictator (narrow part at the front cover). At the same time it represents the “flow of words”, the growth and enrichment of the Latin language which is a core aspect of Rome and Cicero’s personality, leading to a finesse peak – a pinnacle of form and meaning. Combined with this visual element Cicero’s name on the spine adopts a narrative role – it shows us that he was pivotal in all that transpired.

The cover however would feel empty with just that. There was need to fill the rest of the binding in a way that displays its content but at the same time remains discreet. The golden river in the middle zone dominates the design, I couldn’t have something as intense – rather the opposite, so in order to celebrate Cicero I decide to blind tool parts of his orations in Latin. The text is in capitals and you can also notice the absence of punctuation – that is how Latin texts were written or inscribed on surfaces. I took exerpts from his speech “Against Catilina”, one of his most famous orations. You can locate the renown phrase “O tempora, o mores” (“what times do we live in?”) in the text.

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Quarto, Quarter Leather (blank book)
bound by Brien Beidler

Dimensions: 6” x 9 1/2”, 204 pages
Paper: Hahnemule Ingres, Antique
Sewing: six raised linen cords, linen thread
Edges: solid indigo
Endbands: crimson and white silk thread, linen core
Covering: quarter leather, crimson goatskin with handmade hemp and cotton paper over the boards
Decoration: all over gold tooling on the spine

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Triominos
made by Rahel Scheufele

Full leather container for the game Triominos (Goliath toys).

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
bound by Yuko Matsuno

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
bound by Glenn Malkin

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Through the Looking Glass
bound by Jeanette Koch

Of a Feather
bound by Pamela Richmond

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
bound by Richard Beadsmoore

The Fall of the House of Usher
bound by Glenn Malkin

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The Girl From the Sea
bound by Miranda Kemp