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Fox

Title

Subject

bookbinding proposal

Description

Full terracota goatskin, green goatskin doublures, and Cave paper endpapers. The four books of the text are represented by the four pages of different colored green goatskin onlays circling in and surrounding the dusting of gold which represents the final book's emphasis on the individual's union with Christ through the Sacrament or Holy Communion. These leaves tooled in gold to loosely reflect the style of tooling popular in France at the time of the publication of the text. Title and author tooled in blind along the fore-edge of both the front and back boards. Leaves on doublures are floating down and towards the text taking the reader into the book. My hope is to combine old and modern imagery using both traditional and recent developments in design binding.

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).

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Book

Collection

The 6th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Fox, Gabrielle, “Fox,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed March 15, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2272.