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VICTORIAN DECORATED TRADE BINDINGS 1830-1880.
King, Edmund M.B.
First edition. This ground-breaking study deals with the creative explosions of book cover designs in Victorian Britain from 1830 to 1880. Due to new technical developments many practitioners such as Owen Jones, Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground in artistic styling. Edmund King, Head of the Newspaper Archives at the British Library, describes and indexes over 750 books with great detail. Many covers are beautifully illustrated in full color or black-and-white. This volume is an essential reference work for students of Victorian art as well as 19th-century publishing and binding practices. This work has 210 illustrations. Co-published with The British Library. Sales rights: North and South America, available elsewhere, The British Library.
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MEDITATIONS AT THE EDGE: PAPER AND SPIRIT.
by Field, Dorothy.
Limited to 100 numbered copies. A ground breaking look at the way paper has been used throughout history as a means to connect the spiritual and physical worlds. The author has traveled extensively in Asia, collecting the information and ideas which she has worked into the text. The binding resembles the traditional oriental binding, with the pages folded and stab sewn, and the Thomas' have devised a new way of attaching the cloth covered boards (red for good luck) to the text block so that they open completely flat. The pages are exposed on the spine, with the corners wrapped in gold paper. A raised panel on the front cover is decorated with a Bhutanese paper, embellished with small gold squares, which also are used throughout the text. The book is printed letterpress in red and black from handset type on handmade paper, of hemp fibers for the text, and kozo fiber for the illustrations. These are reproduced from pencil sketches by the artist, and printed so the image also appears in reverse on the back of the paper. A unique and beautiful work of art.
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