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Hanmer

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Subject

bookbinding proposal

Description

Book will be disbound. Original boards and spine to be housed in a separate enclosure matching that made for the new binding. Signatures guarded and repaired as necessary. Text block will not be trimmed, double folios of plain handmade paper sympathetic with the text block added at front and rear, all sewn on flattened cords. Book gently rounded but not backed, boards shaped at inside spine edge to match natural shoulder. Boards laced in and book covered in a variety of hues of brown leather, mostly goatskin. Tooling and titling in carbon, 23k gold, and dark brown foils. Edge-to-edge goatskin doublures. Hand-sewn, French style headbands in multiple shades of brown. Design incorporates numerous classic metaphors for spiritual growth: movement from darkness to light, from chaos to order, from rough to smooth, and from earthly to heavenly domains. Overall pattern of tooling is in the shape of a stylized dove.

Creator

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).

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Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Book

Collection

The 6th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Hanmer, Karen, “Hanmer,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed March 16, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2264.