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Brown goatskin, stamped in gilt and blind, is covered in a riotous pattern of multi-colored leather onlays evocative of Aesthetic-era items. It was created at the Dragonfly Bindery in Rhode Island in 2017.

Green crushed goatskin is patterned in terra-cotta, gilt, and black inserts, with large circular areas, themselves in a crackled design derived from imaginatively patterned plastic wrapping. Monique Lallier, born in France, created this binding at…

Inset into the red crushed goatskin binding are six examples of security engravings. The binding was created in 2017 by Donald Etherington in his North Carolina studio.

This binding of burgundy goatskin is exuberantly gilded in a pattern inspired by a famous “featherwork” binding on Leland’s Demosthenes (1756), now at Farmleigh House, Dublin. It was created by Trevor Lloyd, m.b.e., in England, in 2017.

Cor Aerssens, who retired a year ago as a designer-bookbinder after a half-century of renowned craftsmanship, created this binding in North Holland in 2016. Covered in japan vellum, it opens into his “standing book” design, and the colored elements…

Black goatskin, decorated with a polychrome design patterned on elements of two of the earliest forms of the game, with inlays and onlays representing ivory and the roll of the dice. Bound by the late Derek Hood (d. 2021) in Britain in 2016, the…

The brown calf binding is patterned in gilt interlacing filled with black goatskin onlays, alluding to the work of Jean Picard for Jean Grolier in the 1540s. Trevor Lloyd, m.b.e. created it in 2015 at his studio in a Shropshire village that is every…

This English binding of black goatskin, gilt in the Harleian style, features gilt onlays in colored leathers stamped with the ownership dies of 19th- and 20th-century collectors. It was created in 2015 by the Bayntun–Rivière Bindery, in Bath.

The binding of black goatskin is stamped in gold on the front cover after a self-portrait by Lynd Ward; this portrait is stamped in blind, in mirror image, on the rear cover. The binding was created by George and Patricia Sargent at their Dragonfly…

The scarlet goatskin is ruled in gilt with blue goatskin inlays and a panel on the front cover depicting Alice about to enter Wonderland. This copy contains original material from the true first edition of Alice. It was bound by Claudia Cohen at…