KAREN JONES
TITLE: "Before(s)"
YEAR CREATED: 2017
DIMENSIONS: 16.8H x 10.7W x 1.9D cm
MATERIALS: salvaged book boards, Kozo paper, goatskin spine, Cave Paper enclosure
Before conserving a book, I pay attention to all the evidence attached to it, including its history; how it was used; how it functions; materials used in fabrication; its current condition. I also document the object with digital images before and after treatment. This construction is a homage to the “before(s)”. It is made of salvaged book boards (late 18th - early 20th c) and discarded endbands. I pasted “before” images on some of the boards. The board “leaves” are bound using the “Mongolian Stiff Leaf” structure, a traditional technique resurrected and refined by Hedi Kyle.
GINNY KILANDER
TITLE: "A Year of Spring"
YEAR CREATED: 2023
DIMENSIONS: 12.7H x 9W x 12.7D cm
MATERIALS: marbled papers, vellum, natural wood twig; wood slice base
This book contains 52 marbled papers representing the 52 weeks in a year. Each week features a pen and ink springtime doodle (transferred to vellum). The pages rotate around the twig tree trunk as if in a springtime breeze.
MARY LAIRD
TITLE: "A Boxed Set of Two Anita Barrow’s Books: Kindred Flame and Jagged Stones"
YEAR CREATED: 2008-2012
DIMENSIONS: 27.6H x 18.7W x 2.9D cm
MATERIALS: KF: Letterpress on Johannot. Chatham cover paper. Hand-sewn headbands in red &
white linen thread. JS: Letterpress printed on Mohawk. Binding of Japanese cloth drummed over boards.
An elegant stepped dropspine box made by ML to house the above books as one unit.
KF has Copper corners, hand-stenciled covers and 105 runs in the book featuring
abstract pressure prints. Laced binding sewn on double cords with red kangaroo laces.
JS features seven linos by Anita’s eleven-year-old granddaughter, Ciel McKay. A thin
black line of board extends over the foredges of the covers. Sewn with red linen thread
on to three small bands of black goatskin.
Available for purchase from artist: risalalaird@gmail.com
CODY MARBY
TITLE: "Selected Poems of Su Dongpo"
YEAR CREATED: 2022
DIMENSIONS: 16.5H x 13.3W x 2D cm
MATERIALS: Water buffalo leather, marbled paper, green millboard, red silk thread for both endbands, French linen thread and tapes, oversized percale spine treatment, & blue kraft bonnet.
11-section millimeter binding with hooked endsheets, water buffalo leather and marbled paper cover, hand-sewn endbands with a painted top edge.
JENNIFER PELLECCHIA
TITLE: "Frankenstein"
YEAR CREATED: 2022
DIMENSIONS: 24.5H x 17W x 2.5D cm
MATERIALS: paper, thread, leather, foil, ink
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Printed in white ink on Black Licorice Pop-Tone by French Paper at Editions Studio in Seattle, WA. Sewn on ramie band with stuck-on leather endbands. Case binding covered in full Moth Marblers paste paper. Hand titled in white foil.
Available for purchase from artist: hamcakes@gmail.com
RICHARD POLLOCK-NELSON
TITLE: "Grimm’s Fairy Tales"
YEAR CREATED: 2018
DIMENSIONS: 23.5H x 16W x 3D cm
MATERIALS: covered in goat leather, silk endbands, Mohawk superfine 70lb paper, and Madeleine Durham paste paper endsheets.
Book was covered in the Tudor style. Cape onlay on back cover. Wolf paw inlay on front cover.
Available for purchase from the artist: pollocknel@aol.com
DON RASH
TITLE: "Fritz Eberhardt's Finishing Tools and Technique"
YEAR CREATED: 2020
DIMENSIONS: 22.7H x 16.5W x 1.6D cm
MATERIALS: University of Iowa handmade paper; Asuka
paper; Hahnemuhle Ingres paper; Siegel goatskin
Number 29 of an eighty copy limited edition catalog of tools made by Fritz Eberhardt for his design bindings. Text printed on the Boss Dog Press Washington handpress from polymer plates; images printed digitally and tipped in. Bound in a full decorated paper case binding with leather edges at head and tail and gold stamping on spine and boards . Compiled, printed and bound by the artist.
Available for purchase from artist: don@donrashfinebookbinder.com
DON RASH
TITLE: "Hydriotaphia, or Urne Burial"
YEAR CREATED: 2010
DIMENSIONS: 24.9H x 19.1W x 2.2D cm
MATERIALS: Goatskin leather, handmade paper
Design binding for copy #14 of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne-Buriall reprinted under the supervision of Bruce Rogers in 1907. Bound in full gray goatskin with inset brick-red
goatskin onlays on front and back boards. Handsewn endbands. Top edge painted with acrylics. Blind tooled using tools cut by the binder. Spine titled in palladium. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box with a brick-red leather-spine. Bound in 2010.
Available for purchase from artist: don@donrashfinebookbinder.com
BETH REDMOND
TITLE: "A Typographical Masterpiece"
YEAR CREATED: 2021
DIMENSIONS: 33.5H x 24W x 2D cm
MATERIALS: Goat and calf leather, ink, silk thread.
Text by John Dreyfus, published by the Book Club of California, 1990 in an unnumbered edition of 450. An account of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931. Illustrated with reproductions of Gibbings woodcuts.
Full leather binding with laced-in boards. Bound in purple Pentland goat. Silk endbands and edge-to-edge doublures of purple Chieftain. I used a Gill font and Gibbings woodcut as references to create a title/design in goat onlays and hand painted calf inlays.
BETH REDMOND
TITLE: "The Artist & The Capitalist"
YEAR CREATED: 2022
DIMENSIONS: 24.2H x 17.3W x 2.5D cm
MATERIALS: Yellow goatskin binding with inlays and onlays of metal and leather. Metal wrapped leather endbands.
This letterpress printed book presents Florence Boos’ research into a, previously unpublished, William Morris letter, and one of his most acclaimed lectures, “Art Under Plutocracy”, a powerful secular sermon about art and its social environment. Unnumbered copy from an edition of 110, printed by The Printery, Kirkwood MO.
Full leather binding with laced-in boards. Bound in yellow goatskin with inlays and onlays of metal and leather. Metal wrapped leather endbands and natural edges. The binding design is inspired by the inherent tensions between art and capital, craft and mechanization or the opposing views of different people viewing the same thing.
Available for purchase from artist: gophoto3200@hotmail.com
DEAN ROBINO
TITLE: "Lucretius on Particle Physics, Selections From De Rerum Natura"
YEAR CREATED: 2022
DIMENSIONS: 24.1H x 15.6W x 1.9D cm
MATERIALS: Handset Centaur, Sabon Antiqua, Dante, illustrations printed from polymer plate and linoleum, on Holcomb Superfine; Quelquefois Press, Berkeley, California; accordion bound in Japanese bookcloth
Lucretius’s poems about Epicurean atomic theory including the Swerve in Latin and translated by the artist, hand drawn illustrations by the artist from modern physics, mathematics, and cosmology. Lucretius’s descriptions of the first bodies of nature and how they act foresee 20th and 21th century ideas, including such principles as matter not coming from or going back to nothing, particles too small to sense or see, the void in the universe and within atoms themselves, the randomness underlying events. The behavior of these particles, especially in Lucretius’s Swerve underlying their randomness, is consistent with quantum mechanical concepts.
Available for purchase from artist: deanr@pacbell.net
CARLA TENRET
TITLE: "Prayers from the Ark and the Creatures’ Choir" by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
YEAR CREATED: 2022
DIMENSIONS: 26H x 10.8W x 1.6D cm
MATERIALS: Handset and printed by 10 Ray Press (Carla Tenret) at Quelquefois Press (Mary Laird), Berkeley California. Printed on Somerset Book paper, using Spectrum, Dante, and Sabon Antiqua type. Illustrations and calligraphy by Carla Tenret, printed from polymer plates.
The illustrations decided the format of the book. Much thought was given to placement on the page and sometimes on multiple pages. We decided a lovely red-brown mixed ink would be the base color for all the illustrations in the book. For text we added black. And then, more black for the title page. It was interesting to work with the placement of the text and illustrations and initial drop caps. All told each page had four runs of color. The covers are oak board printed on Elephant Hide paper, then adhered to lig-free twenty-point boards.
Available for purchase from artist: butterfly89email@gmail.com
PAMELA WOOD
TITLE: "Candide" by JFMA de Voltaire
YEAR CREATED: 2019
DIMENSIONS: 25.5H x 16.5W x 2D cm
MATERIALS: burgundy goatskin, hand sewn silk end bands, handmade paste paper end sheets, inlays using a variety of colored goatskin, and original watercolor paper
My love for the inlay process allows me to use their simplicity, strength, surprise, and color to create a variety of design paths for this fine leather binding.
Available for purchase from the artist: artboard@rarehare.com
PAMELA WOOD
TITLE: "Forgotten Agaves"
YEAR CREATED: 2021
DIMENSIONS: 14.5H x 10W x 0.7D cm each
MATERIALS: original pochoir inside on Japanese paper and Harmatan cover leather and inlays
The text is original and told over five portfolios. Agave plants are a special Pre-Columbian feature in the Arizona desert. It was exciting to make the plant and its history visual.
Available for purchase from the artist: artboard@rarehare.com
