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The text is to be bound in a variant on Jean De Gonet's exposed sewing and Renaissance slotted spine styles, the head colored with graphite before sewing with red linen thread over grey box calf tapes. The areas between tapes will be covered in black…

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Design draws upon late eighteenth-century Rococo patterns as well as the world-wide pan-historical tradition of making jeweled bindings for spiritual texts. Exuberant lines incorporate references to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Crucifixion, and the…

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Head gilt before sewing on tapes, forwarded as a concave spine binding, tab and slot board attachment. Spine covered in full goatskin with inlaid goatskin title. Boards of eggshell lacquer panels joined with forged patinated brass “lines”, goatskin…

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A traditional Islamic envelope binding in tawed goat with violet goatskin onlays and kozo doublures and flyleaves. Anne and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson were social justice warriors of the first order who devoted their lives and the work of the Doves Press…
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