Barbara Ann Caine

Sacramento, California 
Barbara Ann Caine was born in 1940 in Visalia, California. She received her B.A. in Art Practice from the University of California at Davis, and studied binding with Anne Kahle at the Capricornus School of Bookbinding and Restoration in Berkeley from 1990 to 1994. Caine currently lives and works in Sacramento, California.

Example Binding: 
Eugen Neuhaus. 
World of Art,
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1924.

Quarter leather orange goatskin, marbled paper boards with vellum tipped corners, writing pen and title label attached. Gold-tooled title on spine.

Design Description: 
Quarter leather binding of red and brown goatskin, the boards covered in painted paper collage with vellum tips, the title on front board is gold-tooled. Embedded in the front cover will be a glass bottle containing actual Mississippi River water.