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Sir Patrick Spens & Other Ballads

Item date(s): 1994

Mark Cockram  - (bookbinding by)
Jane Lydbury  - (engravings by)


Pages: 32pp
Size: 170mm
Binding: Designer binding
Technique: Woodcut
Edition: Unique


Place publication: London
Publisher: The Folio Society

Additional notes:
Five full-page black and white wood engravings. 32p. Book. With irregular shaped binding - 6..75" x 5.25". Set in Monotype Joanna and printed by Mandarin Offset on Japanese Laid paper. Unique binding by Mark Cockram. Book bound in navy leather with all edges navy. Both boards incorporated with cut-out irregular shaped antique paper and book cloth boards with all edges in navy. Construction technique is with link stitch with secondary sewing and full linen board attachment, leather jointed endpapers. Endpapers of decorated blue and black paper, with the same paper on the side of one board as well as laid into the box so that the book fis in comfortably. A fixed board binding. Blue cloth dropback box, navy leather spine with simple gilt tooling,white title label in gilt lettering.

A subtle binding coupled with shapes that echo the sails of a ship. The antique paper lends tone and texture.

Ref: GB/10920







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