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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…

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…

Famous for its linoleum-cut illustrations by Matisse, this example is renowned for its pictorial Spanish binding by Santiago Brugalla. It features sculptured elements within a Cretan/Minoan overall design, along with white lambswool doublures.

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.

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 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 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…