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

13 poems by H.N. Bialik
bound by Yehuda Miklaf, 1987

Original etchings by Moshe Gershuni
Jerusalem Print Workshop

Full black goatskin with mosaic portraits of the author and artist using more than 5000 small leather squares.



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Révolutions
by J.M.G. Le Clézio
bound by Jean-Pierre Durix

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
by Christopher de Hamel
bound by Carole Durix

Inside the Book
bound by Robin Brandes
by David Esslemont, Solementes Press, 2002.
263 x 172 x 30mm.

Full leather binding with laced-in boards. Covered in Harmatan white Katsina goatskin. Edge-to-edge paper doublures. White Katsina leather hinges. Archival pigment-printed flyleaves on Awagami bamboo paper. Brackets laser cut by Sarah Pike. Titling in palladium leaf by Samuel Feinstein.

During the concept development for the design binding Inside the Book, I was thrilled to discover brackets used to enclose the page numbers in the text like this: [ 12 ] As a graphic designer, I like to deconstruct content to get to the core meaning for presentation. It occurred to me that each bracket looked like an edge of an open book! I wanted the viewer to see through the edges of the book—to see inside the book. Therein lies the design binding for Inside the Book.

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King Charles III Coronation Bible
bound by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf

Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf have collaborated with Oxford University Press in producing four finely bound bibles for His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation.

Six staff spent over 300 hours binding and finishing the four bibles, the first of which was used in the ceremony and will now be kept at Lambeth Palace, where an archive of coronation bibles stretching back centuries is held. The second copy will be given to King Charles III as a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The two remaining copies will be kept by Westminster Abbey and Oxford University Press.

With the commission coming at the beginning of January 2023, OUP and Shepherds had to make many decisions swiftly. The leather chosen, a rich crimson vegetable-tanned goatskin, was produced by Harmatan, and the initial cover design of a nature-inspired roundel created by the design team at OUP. This design was expanded and completed by Shepherds to create a harmonious finish. The final specification involves leather doublures with inlays of dark blue leather, navy blue silk flyleaves, hand-sewn silk endbands, raised bands on the spine, and a full gilt finish inside and out of 24ct gold leaf.

Boxes were made to hold each bible with the King’s cypher emblazoned in gold to the top.