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Collection: The 4th DeGolyer Competition
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Spitler example
Special set of sheets presented by author to Spitler for design binding. Full gold Chieftain goatskin, leather onlays, blind and gold tooling, pochoir acrylics. Ancient fruit, fig and pomegranate represent the Garden of Eden as a snake crosses the…
Tapley
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…
Tapley example
Sewn on tapes and forwarded as a Brockman Concave Spine Binding, tab and slot board attachment. Head gilt and colored. Covered in two colors of goatskin, title inlaid on spine, boards tooled in gilt and foil, back inlaid with eggshell lacquer and…
Taylor
Harmatan purple leather #29, marbled endpapers, endbands. Front board will be embroidered labyrinth of four-ply waxed golden yellow thread. Bottom board will be embroidered empty room, the labyrinth inspired by “The Garden of Forking Paths.” The…
Taylor example
Cased in two boards with Harmatan purple leather #29. Text paper is Arches text wove. Marbled endpapers by Kevin Taylor. Flexible purple leather spine colored with gold pigment paint and sewn with “x” stitching to leather covers.
Thomas
In “The Library of Babel,” Borges writes: “The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, number of hexagonal galleries, with enormous ventilation shafts in the middle. . .” This concept is inspiration…
Thomas example
Sewn onto wooden dowels. A threaded hollow steel rod connects two redwood hexagons that function as lids or covers. The “book” has a hexagonal slipcase with six panels featuring copies of the original book’s cover attached to a redwood base.…
Wood
Binding sewn with linen cords and tapes. Text block with mull attached to a three-piece cover using Canapetta eggshell bookcloth. The two halves with contrasting color sides, Canapetta red and Canapetta blue. Inlay accents of stylized labyrinths,…
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Clamshell box and cover, built in three pieces. Original hand-dyed bookcloth by binder used inside box and quarter bind, elsewhere Cialux evergreen cloth. Binding is traditional codex, with linen thread and tapes, endpapers are deep green Hahnemuhle…
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