The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Bound by Kate Holland

Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
London: Geoffrey Bles. 1952
Collection of Bruce Munro

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is number 2 of a 3 volume set. Volume 1 is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Volume 3 is The Magician's Nephew

Full paste resist dyed fair calf with holographic tooling and inset abalone shell, paper edge to edge doublures with inset abalone sheet, endpapers are a manipulated underwater image looking up at water lilies, hand coloured edges, hand sewn silk endbands. Chemise of transparent clouded vellum over hand dyed watercolour paper.

"Narnia. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Prince Caspian's ship, the Dawn Treader, travels through a vast magical sea of lilies to Aslan's country where Reepicheep, the talking mouse, sails up a huge wave and to the land beyond. For me, the final part of this trilogy of bindings, a book about death and the journey from earth into another world. I took two of @brucemunrostudio installations, Water Lilies, a sea of holographic CDs, and Reepicheep's Wave, a huge wave of mussel shells, as inspiration for this. I love the natural holographic quality of the abalone shell and it nicely referenced the mussel shells as well as the shimmering colours of CDs. "

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