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B3167. Fine Bookbinding / Lindsay
Fine Bookbinding: A Technical Guide by Jen Lindsay. 2009. 192pp. 9"x9-7/8". Hardcover
Available now!
A comprehensive manual that guides you through each stage of making a book bound in leather. Explains each stage in the binding process, followed by instructions with photographs or diagrams. Jean Lindsay is a British binder and has taught at Roehampton Institute.
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B3207. Surface of Meaning / Bringhurst
The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada by Robert Bringhurst. 2008. 240pp. 9.25"x11". Hardcover $59.95
A survey of Canadian books and book design, including books for Native Americans in their own language & bilingual books, small press books, university press books, private press books and trade books. Each of the four sections of the book starts with a brief essay by Bringhurst: What's a Book - and Why? Transparency, tangibility, complexity, and culture. The Invisible Book: Literary structures before, beneath, and beside the European colonization. The Echo of Tangibility: Constructing culture from the Second World War to the Digital Divide. Stills from a Typographic Movie: Canadian books from 1980 to the present day. (This is a presentation of books in codex form, rather than a survey of artist's books.) A few, such as Canadian artist Nick Bantock's Sabine's Notebook, will be familiar from their USA editions.
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B3208. Everywhere Being is Dancing / Bringhurst
Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst. 2009. 352pp. 5.25"x8.5". Paper
The companion volume to The Tree of Meaning (B2898, $17.95). Everywhere Being is Dancing collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, involving the work of poets, musicians, artists and philosophers as varied as Aristotle, J.S. Bach, Glenn Gould, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Joan Miró, Plato, Ezra Pound, Skaay and Gary Snyder. Includes Bringhurst's own translations of the fragments of Parmenides and Cháálatsoh's Navajo narrative "The Origin of Horses."
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B3221. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz HARDBOUND
The Thread that Binds by Pamela Train Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Hardcover $55.00.
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz; the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3232. Leather Books / Karli Frigge
Leather Books: An Illustrated Handbook by Karli Frigge. 1997. 90pp. 5.5"x9.75". Edition of 370 copies. Paper $58.00.
This manual presents instruction and drawings for two methods of binding. In each, the signatures are sewn over leather strips and then pulled through the boards. Parts of the leather thongs are visible with each binding. The bindings use traditional binding techniques such as rounding and backing a spine and making a making a hollow. Includes 75 instructional drawings.
The fore edge is not trimmed - there are uncut sheets that will need to be separated.
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B3306. Art of the Woodcut / Salaman
The Art of the Woodcut: Masterworks from the 1920’s by Malcolm Salaman. 2010. 192pp. 8-3/8"x11". Paper $19.95. Available January 2010
A wonderful survey of woodcut illustration from the 1920’s. The nearly 200 striking images include two-color woodcuts and a few full-color pages. Artists include Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, Eric Gill, Willam Zorach, and JJ Lankes. Reprint of The Woodcut of Today at Home and Abroad. 1927.
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B3301. Line & Spirit: Japan Exhibition
Line & Spirit: Japan - Belgium Letter Arts Exhibition. 2009. 40pp. 8.25"x11.75". Paper $28.50 including ship/handling (USA only).
Available now!
Over eighty pieces from this juried show are presented, all in full-color, and some with additional detail photos: calligraphic works, letter carving, and type design. Includes Western and Eastern calligraphy, the traditional and the contemporary, legible and painterly presentations, and two and three-dimensional works. The vast majority of the pieces are in English(!) and use Western letterforms. Others are in Flemish and Japanese. The text and captions are in both English and Japanese. Belgian calligraphers include: Yves Leterme; Lieve Cornil; Brody Neuenschwander; Joke, Kristoffel, Liesbet & Pieter Boudens; and Elmo van Slingerland. Most of the Japanese calligraphers will be unfamiliar to many of us - but it’s not because their work is any less wonderful than that of better known scribes.
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DVD41. Drawing & Painting the Acanthus Leaf
Drawing and Painting the Acanthus Leaf DVD. Rosemary Buczek. Approx 120 minutes
Covers the basics elements of drawing and painting the Acanthus Leaf. In three segments, Rosemary approaches a basic level for beginners, an intermediate level, and an advanced level of drawing and painting this leaf. Additionally, she includes a set of patterns for you to download. Rosemary Buczek has taught illumination at both the summer calligraphy conference and the IAMPETH convention.
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B3209. Designing Faces, Figures, Florals /Schneider
Designing Faces, Figures, Florals and More: Contemporary Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy by Linda Schneider. 2009. 85pp. 8.5"x11". Paper
A great instructional workbook for pointed pen flourishing. You learn the basics of flourishing and how to apply those techniques to ornament your work. Linda's flourish style is unique. Instead of feathers and birds, she uses the flourish strokes to create delightful flowers, ladies, dogs and even the Eiffel Tower.
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B3020. Raven / Poe / Gatti
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. 2008. 72pp. 7"x9".
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David Gatti presents this famous poem, illustrating it
with black and white drawings as well as with the lettering. A cursive hand,written with a broad-edged pen, is used for the text. Gatti uses a larger size of the cursive hand and
Roman caps to help in the telling of this dramatic tale. Printed in an edition of 200. Most privately distributed. Limited supply.
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