Published by Incline Press, Oldham, Lancashire, 2008
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Clare Curtis; Bert Eastman; Rigby Graham; Victoria Hall; Eric Hasse; Paul Kershaw; Ann Muir; Mark Walmsley (illustrator). 1st Edition. A collection of poems on the theme of water illustrated by eight artists. Including Dolphins at Fingals Cave by Rigby Graham. One of 150 copies bound in marbled leatherette by Alison Allison, from whose personal collection this book originates. Silver lettering on face and spine. Light blue and white sewn headbands. A total edition of 500 copies were printed on Zerkall paper by the Incline Press - the remaining 400 copies were issued as sheets for the International Competition of Designer Bookbinders. Blue end papers. A spare title plate is laid in at the front end pages. Errata slip also bound in at ffep. In fine condition.
Published by Incline Press, Oldham, UK, 2008
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine Archival Case. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in London, and with Roger Powell in England. She established her studio, the Merlicorn Bindery, on Nantucket in 1975, which she moved to Maine in 1985. She specializes in one-of-a-kind creative ne binding, all aspects of rare book restoration, and general hand bookbinding. Tight, bright and unmarred. Full leather binding in grey and dark sea-green goatskins; onlays of various leathers, all embossed with lino-cuts (representing various elements of water-sea, clouds, rain, streams, waves, currents); in blind lettering at spine; sewn on raised bands, endpages marbled by the binder, leather hinges, colored topstain, hand-sewn headbands; matching archival box, hand-marbled title page (wave-form). 8vo. np. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Errata tipped in.