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The author’s linoleum-cut illustrations in the book inspired the artist-bookbinder Ulrich Widmann to create this allusive binding at his studio in Freiburg im Breisgau in 2019. It is dyed and painted in a free-form, self-contained polychrome design…

The gilt-outlined blank star on the front of the dustjacket hints at the hidden treatment of the publisher’s case binding. Instead of the expected three-part colored paper cover imitating a cloth spine with paper-covered boards, one is surprised to…

These miniature books were bound in France by Sün Evrard in 2002. In dark-blue and black calf, respectively, they feature Mme Evrard’s different styles of spatter and cut-out décor, the covers attached to the bookblocks with her characteristic gold…

These miniature books were bound in France by Sün Evrard in 2002. In dark-blue and black calf, respectively, they feature Mme Evrard’s different styles of spatter and cut-out décor, the covers attached to the bookblocks with her characteristic gold…

The horizontal or landscape-format binding of magenta goatskin features hologram-like red plastic “window” inserts spelling out the author’s name. It was created in Paris by Georges Leroux in 1993.

This striking and imaginative binding was created by Michael Wilcox, a Canadian artist, in 1982. The midnight-blue goatskin is covered in red goatskin letterforms, for the author and title, on both covers. It is the most elaborate of seven Club…

When the Club purchased this example in 1889 it was bound in a disintegrating 18th-century binding. Rebound sympathetically in New York in 1975, it was stamped with a reproduction of Tory’s publisher’s binding die, its shattered vase memorializing…

The publisher’s cloth-covered case binding is in notably bright condition for a century-old book written for a young-adult audience. It is accompanied by the brass binding die that produced the black-printed text and design elements on the front…

This extensive survey of Bonet’s binding designs over the first quarter-century of his work, compiled by several of his supporters, is one of 50 copies with original material from his designs. Bonet described this example as the very epitome of his…

This die, in several slightly differing versions with minor changes to permit different titling, was made for Pierre Legrain, the founder of the Art Deco binding, after his design. The overall pattern, stamped in gilt, appeared on works by Verlaine…