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Deiss and Jackson

Title

Deiss and Jackson

Subject

bookbinding proposal

Description

Front and back covers with gold fillets between red and burgundy/brown rays, gold fillet at edges of board faces. Title and author gold tooled on spine. Blind tooling around inner edge of front girandole, DIXITQUE DEUS FIAT LUX (with gold leaf illumination), and around inner edge of back girandole, VIDEMUS NUNC PER SPECULUM IN AENIGMATE (with silver leaf illumination), each girandole to be slightly rounded and elevated, blind tooled, circular indentations on frames of girandoles. Gold leaf illumination in halo of candle. Endsheet design is a relief print suggestive of fur.

Creator

Deiss, Jill and Jackson, Amy

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

This work is protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution is permitted. This file may be used for educational uses only, provided it is not altered in any way, and the copyright line is cited. (Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU).

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Book

Collection

The 6th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Deiss, Jill and Jackson, Amy, “Deiss and Jackson,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed September 7, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2282.