Handbound Blank Book (Mountains in the Desert Scene).

Sandlin, Linda (bookbinder).

Verlag: Handbound by Linda Sandlin with her miniature binder's label on inner back cover, reading: Sandlin's Books & Bindery Valparaiso, IN[diana]; ca. 1992.

Beschreibung

Size of binding: 4 1/2" x 7", containing 39 slightly smaller, blank (unruled) leaves of high quality white paper (78pp.). Handbound in black leather (goatskin), with feathered onlays of various colored leathers: white clouds, brown outlines of mountains, white & blue lines behind the mountains, with a desert scene in the foreground with various types of rocks, shrubs in autumn colors, & multi-colored forms. Black leather fold-ins & inner hinges with autumn gold paper paste downs & orange paper (mounted on white paper) flyleaves; multi-colored, sewn headbands; top edge with a gray, metallic finish & small stippled tooling. Covers show very slight convex bowing. Fine. In a 5 1/4" x 7 1/2", sturdy, handcrafted drop-back folding box, covered in rust brown cloth & sage green cloth on inner covers & with green ribbon ties; also in fine condition. Scan shows the design which wraps around the entire book. This is a one-of-kind binding, and one of the few blank books produced by Linda Sandlin in the early 1990's. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-203342832

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Handbound Blank Book (Mountains in the ...

Verlag: Handbound by Linda Sandlin with her miniature binder's label on inner back cover, reading: Sandlin's Books & Bindery Valparaiso, IN[diana]; ca. 1992.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine