Hanmer example

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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 case, tabbed corners. Hand titling in 22k moon gold, blue acrylic line applied through stencil. Endpapers of handmade Ruscombe Mill pale wove, single folio with hooked flexi endleaf. Graphite head. The pale vellum references the white whale, and the blue line a turbulent sea. The stark contrast between these elements mirrors the horror steadily building in anticipation of the Pequod’s encounter with Moby Dick. Use of blue inside and out also references the color of the initial caps in the Arion Press and Deluxe California editions of this text.

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Melville, Herman and Moser, Barry, ill.

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Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. First printing, trade version. Facsimile of Arion Press 1979 edition with illustrations by Barry Moser.

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The 8th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Melville, Herman and Moser, Barry, ill., “Hanmer example,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed November 15, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1963.

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