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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…

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…

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…

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 paired Art Deco bindings, in glazed black calf with white suede inlays representing lightning flashes, were created by Eliseo Tealdi in Florence in 1930. They were commissioned by a young American student of art, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman…

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…

These paired Art Deco bindings, in glazed black calf with white suede inlays representing lightning flashes, were created by Eliseo Tealdi in Florence in 1930. They were commissioned by a young American student of art, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman…

The volume of author’s manuscript and artist’s collages was bound by Renaud Vernier and Claude Ribal in gray goatskin. The polychrome design depicts elements of the Paris Métro beneath opened-up buildings depicted in the characteristic limestone of…

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.