First is Soohee Kim and her binding for this years Designer Bookbinders Competition. The set book is supplied by the Folio Society, this year being ' The Somme an Eyewittness Account'
Soohee has bound the book in a reverse goat skin with applied panels of hand worked pewter and soft plate off-set prints.
Detail of the back board panel.
Detail of the spine area, with Blind Tooling.
Detail of the pewter and off-set printed panels to the front board.
Front and back endpapers and doublures.
This is Soohee's first Designed Binding ( I think she did okay ) and it is on exhibition untill the 12th of January 2008, along with a lot more wonderful bindings at the John Rylands University Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH (UK)
The John Rylands Library is a fantastic place to visit for any book lover, wonderful architecture and atmosphere.
Must dash as my Pizza has arrived.
2 comments:
"I think she did okay"
What nonsense! The book is beautiful and she did exceptionally well.
Yes I know but I do not want it to go to her head.
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