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Collection: The 8th DeGolyer Competition
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Bruce
A hand-painted cover for "The Apocrypha" inspired by biblical images found in historically significant churches and in illuminated manuscripts, a modified illustration to give the design a vintage feel. The illustration selected for the cover would…
Bruce example
Modified split board structure in a style developed by Jan Sobota, acrylic hand-painted leather cover, green textured sheepskin on interior boards. Complementary leather cord headbands, alcohol paper endsheets created specifically for this binding,…
Fox
This binding highlights the typeface, particularly the large red A.
Fox example
The poetry, illustrations, and the countryside Wendell Berry describes inspired this design. Soft, rolling hills are shown using the bas-relief areas and the crops are represented by the rough green leather onlays and gold tooled lines with a dusting…
Hanmer
Binding based on "clip-on cover" structure by Kathy Abbott. The proposed binding would protect the binding while allowing it to be fully visible with no stress to the text block or case. The wavy line references biblical water metaphors and the…
Hanmer example
Binding based on the non-adhesive “clip-on cover” structure developed by United Kingdom binder Kathy Abbott. Text block disbound, outer folios guarded, sewn long stitch with blue linen thread into calf vellum wrapper, covered in limp calf vellum…
Ingalls
Proposal is a mix of traditional binding and contemporary design. Crosses are partially sanded through the vellum cover showing gold beneath. This design is inspired by Apocrypha meaning "hidden things."
Ingalls example
Bound in limp vellum with natural goat parchment and parchment strap closures. Design elements include handmade leather endbands and natural edges. Unsigned. Bound in 2008.
Kibby
Influenced by church architecture that frame historical or legendary instructional parables depicted in stained glass. An abstract menorah will be featured in the arches indicating the Jewish biblical influence.
Kibby example
Parchment goatskin with thin, leather onlays, manipulated and mapped over subtle, paper-clay modeling of the book boards to heighten the effects of land erosion. Hand embroidered silk headbands, edge decoration with pastel pigment blended with…
Lawrence
The idea for triangles comes from two sources. When you interlace your fingers, palms facing you, and then pull your hands slightly apart the open space in that union creates triangles; also, the triangles with their gold tooled lines suggest a very…
Lawrence example
Full purple goatskin with multi-colored onlays depicting the four evangelists in geometric abstraction, surface gilding, gold and blind tooling. Top edge dyed and partially gilt, hand embroidered headbands of violet and lavender silk with gilding,…
Pullman
The other bound volumes in this set made blue leathers seem most appropriate. To be bound in medium blue and light blue goatskin leathers with gold foil tooling and leather line inlays. Handsewn silk endbands and marbled endpapers with sewn in…
Pullman example
Black and red goatskin with red and black inlays, the image on the upper board inspired by the illustrations in the book and the desire to portray a good and evil side to the face. Page edges covered with graphite paint. Handsewn red endbands and…
Reid-Cunningham
Design based on the conflicted nature of the Apocrypha. Design has clashing panels and forms and shell veneer and mother of pearl that represent a bright light in a world of confusion.
Reid-Cunningham example
Sections sewn on meeting guards sewn all along onto three raised linen cords. Front bead silk headbands. Bound in quarter orange goatskin, boards decorated outside and inside with wood veneers, titled and tooled in metallic foil, signed and dated…
Tapley
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…
Tapley example
The book is sewn on five frayed linen cords, all text block edges left rough, and bound in full Oasis goatskin using a modified, but traditional, French style. The binding is decorated with multicolored leather onlays to an abstracted cruciform…
Wood
Leather binding and hinges of Harmatan #16 green goatskin, inlays of Harmatan #35 yellow goatskin, with leather inlays. Sping will have an inlay with a gold thread cross.
Wood example
This binding reflects the style and techniques proposed for the Apocrypha, Volume IV of The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & the New printed by the Doves Press. This example utilizes full goatskin case bound with a hollow back, laced…
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