Fine Binding & Boxes
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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press (1898)
Full bound in blue levant goatskin, gold tooled and titled by hand; gilded top edge; marbled endpapers and leather hinges; originally issued in holland-backed boards, the printed paper cover has been backed in Japanese paper and bound in at the rear.
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The Cricket and the Hearth (London, 1846)
Full bound in scarlet, morocco-grained goatskin with gold-stamped spine labels and onlay borders in green morocco; hand-worked silk headbands, gilded top edge; marbled endpapers and leather hinges. Housed in a custom silk clamshell box.
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May Queen
Custom leather clamshell box with rounded spine and raised bands; spine and covers titled and embellished with gold; interior in gold silk cloth. An extravagant presentation box for a truly beautiful book.
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Various Leather bindings
A gallery of additional leather bindings from traditional aesthetics to more modern designs.
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The Raven (Cheloniidae Press, 1985)
Finely bound in midnight blue levant goatskin with leather and silk thread onlay along the bottom of both boards; hand-sewn silk endbands; leather hinges and patterned endpapers; together with leather-backed chemise housing an additional suite of engravings, each signed by the artist; all housed in a custom clamshell box.
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Santa Fe to the Navajo Country (Philadelphia, 1852)
Three-quarter leather clamshell box with marbled paper over boards with sympathetically colored cloth trays to house this valuable 19th century piece of Western Americana. An elegant solution to housing a fragile and less than attractive copy.