Bound by Jason Patrician

The Grolier Club - Iter Hibernicum Redux
Edited by George Edwards

Published in in 2017, in connection with the Grolier Club's second major bibliophilic tour of Ireland held May 16-24, 2016. The text was designed by Mark Argetsinger, and contains numerous colour photos contributed by the participants of the tour.

Bound in Bottle Green Pentland goat with red goat leather inlays. Gold tooled with 23k gold leaf. The endpapers were hand-marbled by Jason Patrician on Hahnemühle Ingres paper. The design of this binding was inspired by Irish bindings from the mid and late 1700s. The decorative brass hand tools and roll used on this binding were reproduced by the efforts of Philip Maddock, who referenced scans and rubbings of hundreds of Irish bindings from the period.

Jason's work can be seen at the Fish Bindery and he can be contacted at jason@thefishbindery.com

Bound by Yuko Matsuno

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Introduced by Lavinia Greenlaw
Illustrated by Jane Lydbury
Published by the Folio Society
Bound in 2017

Yuko's binding was awarded 2nd place in the 'Folio Society prize for the Set Book' in the Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition 2017.

Bound in Hewit's Purple Pentland goatskin. Link stitch with secondary sewing. Full linen board attachment. The cover is hand-engraved and painted with Gansai, Japanese watercolour paints. Gampi paper onlays. Doublures and endpapers decorated with permanent coloured pencils, Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901. Edges decorated with permanent coloured pencils and acrylic inks. Hand-sewn Japanese silk endbands.

The design of the binding shows the scene from one of Dickinson's poems, I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-. The purple represents 'The stillness' in the poem. My interpretation of the colour of the last line of the poem 'I could not see to see' is whitish-yellow. The hand-engraved decoration is inspired by Jane Lydbury's beautiful wood engravings.

Yuko can be contacted at matsuno.t.yuko@googlemail.com