Norge
bound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books

An early photographic book on Norway.

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Complete Poems of Robert Frost
bound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books

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Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories of the Brothers Grimm
bound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books

American Edition, 1925
Illustrated by Kay Nielsen

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The Illustrated Man: 16 short stories by Ray Bradbury
The Folio Society, 2017
bound by Mel Jefferson

Bound in black Harmatan goatskin. Body landscape of maril (thinly sliced marbled leather composite) with airbrushed highlights/shadows. Silk endbands. Edges in acrylics with specks of palladium leaf. Astronaut rendered in domed recessed onlays of alum-tawed goatskin. Lectern in recessed onlaid lines.

Printed planet inlay under vellum. Rocketship and planet logo blocked and onlaid.

Printed doublures with 16 inlaid period comic strip images under vellum.

The design reflects my feeling that Bradbury’s early work – often written for sci-fi comics – used the genre as a platform for what now seems like rather naïve moralising, hence the declaiming astronaut.

Winner of the Mansfield Medal for best binding in the Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition, 2018.
Collection: The British Library.

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Enclosures: Times And Places
A book of woodcuts by Andrew Anderson
Evergreen Press, 2009
bound by Mel Jefferson

A crossed-structure binding in laminated Harmatan goatskin.

Outer laminate decorated with starfield, clock face and musical notation rendered in recessed leather onlays. Circular crosshatching design blocked in silver foil. Recessed onlaid lines in alum-tawed goatskin. Inner laminate textured and decorated with blind tooling showing a plan of Stonehenge with remaining stones indicated by goatskin onlays. Cover fore-edges contain carbon rods for rigidity.

Central lacunose strap with a leather button bearing the artist’s monogram. The strap may be detached from the inner covers to reveal hidden patches of ‘grass’.

Two-stage sewing through an inner concertina wrapper of dyed Tyvek with stylised inked stonework design. Covers secured with laminated ‘donuts’ of parchment (upcycled title deed) sewn with silver wire. Graphite edges.

Box of dyed Tyvek and Windmill paper. Circular stylized stonework design. Title blocked in grey foil. Magnetic insert conceals collapsible stand. Folding cushions enable box to be used as a display plinth.

Winner of the Harmatan Leather Ltd. Prize in the Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition, 2018.
Collection: Dr. John Walters.

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Happy Abstract
bound by Coleen Curry

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Le Tambour
bound by Jean-Pierre Durix