Bindings by Wilcox Michael (9 results)

No pagination (20p), wraps, b & w illustrations, very good. One of 550 copies, privately printed. Sponsored by The Guild of Book Workers.

Staple Bound. Condition: Fine. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery: the Thomas J. Watson Library. 13 pages with three page forward by Mr. Wilcox. 12 bindings described with six b&w images. Keywords: Hand-Crafted, Book Bindings, Art, Binding, Bound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Folio. Red silk boards with paper label title to spine. 12 tipped in colour photos of Wilcox's magnificent bindings with his commentary. Edition of 225 copies, this copy not numbered. Corner creasing to the afterword leaf, fine, crisp copy otherwise.

cloth, paper spine label. Bookbinding (illustrator). tall 4to. cloth, paper spine label. (42) pages. With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. Near fine. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with a tipped-in photograph. A beautifully printed look at one of better binders working today.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Bookbinding (illustrator). tall 4to. full chocolate brown morocco, designed with small citron rectangles, powder-blue butterflies and citron birds stamped in blind and gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, signed "Wilcox 1987" on the rear board, in wheat-colored cloth tray case with silk liners and headbands, silk ties. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies, of which this is one of 10 copies bound numbered I-X and bound by Michael Wilcox. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy of this spectacular binding. Michael Wilcox states: "My design is intended to be light-hearted and decorative, but is based on the interchange of ideas and the complex business that takes place in the mind when words are matched with images and vice-versa. It seems to me that the convolutions of my brain have been since a quite young age filled with things about nature, and so when I think about books they are often mixed in with thoughts on plants, birds, etc. The key to this design is to be found in my name (word), which appears in the left hemisphere, and my profile (image) which is the right hemisphere - the places in the brain where the experts say these things should be. For the binding, a Cloisonné-style block of brass and copper was made and used for the main part of the design - an impression of it alone can be seen on the outside of the box. The bird, butterfly, and profile were made up as separate hand-tools again using the cloisonné method." With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with a tipped-in photograph. A beautifully printed look at one of better binders working today. full chocolate brown morocco, designed with small citron rectangles, powder-blue butterflies and citron birds stamped in blind and gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, signed "Wilcox 1987" on the rear board, in wheat-colored cloth tray case with silk liners and headbands, silk ties.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. With remarks on the bindings by Michael Wilcox and on the books by Elaine Smyth and W. Thomas Taylor. Slim folio, measuring approximately 9ĵ" x 14". Illustrated from color photographs of the 12 bindings, as printed illustrations. Final leaf of text with a bit of corner creasing, still a fine copy. 210 copies of this edition were published; 200 in boards and 10 bound by Michael Wilcox and with Cibachrome prints instead of traditional color plates. This copy is unnumbered (and with the regular color plates), and finely bound in a textured mosaic of magenta leather with a pattern of embossed and debossed rectangles, and a repeating motif on the front pastedown. The small blindstamp near the spine base says "DSE" (or some arrangement thereof). We have been unable to determine the identity of the binder, but they are obviously quite accomplished. In a fine, unmarked clothcovered clamshell case.

full leather, clamshell box. Bookbinding (illustrator). tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips. Gilt dotted tooling. Duel moracco and goat spine label with 'Michael Wilcox' stamped in gilt. Handmade leather headbands. Stamped by the binder on the rear pastedown 'Don Etherington'. The book is housed in a custom cloth-covered boards clamshell box with a leather spine label with the title stamped in gilt. An overall spectacular binding. With Remarks on the Bindings by Michael Wilcox & on the Books by Elaine Smyth & W. Thomas Taylor. Printed by David Holman on Guarro mould-made paper with design by Taylor. Each book is described in detail with the physical description and philosophy behind the binding and is pictured in full color with a tipped-in photograph. A beautifully printed look at one of better binders working today.

Edition limited to 225 copies (this, copy 201), folio, pp. [42]; 12 mounted color plates, 5 other illustrations in text printed in varying colors; fine in original red linen by Craig Jensen, paper label on spine.

Edition limited to 225 copies, folio, pp. [41]; 12 mounted color plates, 5 other illustrations in text printed in varying colors; fine in orig. red linen, paper label on spine.