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Spitler

Title

Subject

bookbinding proposal

Description

If one was to visit Bernard Middleton's bindery in the 1970s, when this text was published, it would not have been unusual to find a cat or two curled up in a corner. Proposed binding to be bound in brown Hewit goatskin in a laced-on boards binding with raised bands on the spine. Traditional gold lines and decorative stamps will be tooled on the spine, along with two green leather labels, gold stamped in two panels. Front and back boards would be framed by gold lines around large green leather panels, each containing a recess for the cut foil, stamped goatskin onlays of sleeping cats. Winner: 2015 DeGolyer Award for American Bookbinding

Creator

Spitler, Priscilla

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 7th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Spitler, Priscilla, “Spitler,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed October 6, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2344.