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Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Collection of Lisa Unger Baskin
Tan buffalo hide embroidered in a wreath inspired by Maria Sibylla Merian’s botanical studies and publications. The 2020 binding and embroidery are the work of Erin Fletcher at her Herringbone Bindery, now at Austin.
A Matter of Size: Miniature Bindings & Texts from the Collection of Patricia J. Pistner
Black goatskin inlaid with fourteen book-shaped plaques bearing texts, with flashes of gold leaf and red onlays, along with scattered polychrome stars. The binding was created by Robert Wu at his Toronto studio in 2019.
Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman
The vibrant pink calf is inlaid with two counterposed full-body images of Whitman, pen in hand, in black and white goatskin. His phrase “Listener up there” and other images complete the ensemble. Inspired by Jerry Kelly’s design for the dust jacket…
A Conversation Larger than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic, 1762–2017
Midnight-blue goatskin is decorated in a gilt double panel design, the inner panel filled with gilt leafy sprays. The binding was created in 2018 by Wesley Baker at his studio in Alabama.
“A Literary Fellowship”: Relationships and Rivalries in 19th-century American Literature
Portraits of eighteen literary lights during 19th-century America are set into this red goatskin binding. The inserts are of silver foil on black goatskin. The binding was created by the Sargents in 2018 at their Dragonfly Bindery in Rhode Island.
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B. Midnight-blue goatskin is richly gilt in an expansive dentelle design of leafy and figured sprays created by Trevor Lloyd, m.b.e. in Shropshire in 2018. Its design alludes to the work of such historic French binders as Padeloup le Jeune and…
French Book Arts: Manuscripts, Printed Books, Bindings, Prints, & Documents, 12th–21st Century
A. This ingenious binding is made of thinly skived (laser-cut) flexible stone with wooden inserts, the bookblock secured into the binding with seven pairs of gold fixtures. It was created by Sün Evrard in France in 2018.
The Grolier Club Iter Siniticum: A Bibliophilic Tour of China
The binding and its enclosure were created in China by Lu Jingren in 2018. The light-blue textile is patterned in dark-blue brocade and white bullion, and the wooden box, with a titled sliding closure, is engraved and partially inlaid with a Chinese…
The Grolier Club Iter Siniticum: A Bibliophilic Tour of China
The binding and its enclosure were created in China by Lu Jingren in 2018. The light-blue textile is patterned in dark-blue brocade and white bullion, and the wooden box, with a titled sliding closure, is engraved and partially inlaid with a Chinese…
The Calligraphy Revival 1906–2016
Black crushed goatskin features horizontal and vertical onlays of royal blue goatskin with gilt titling and flourished ribbons. Claudia Cohen created this binding at her studio in Seattle in 2018.