Philip smith bookbinders (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition. 34 cm; 59, [3] pages. 47 color illustrations. Price list laid in. Bound in ochre wraps. Not quite fine, but very good. Traveling exhibition of work by contemporary British craft bookbinders.

Illustrated stiff wrappers. Pp.48 with numerous portraits & illustrations, an excellent copy. Includes portraits of 21 Fellows, each with a biographical note and artistic statement, and also with a total of 53 illustrations of bindings. Includes a 2.5pp Foreword by Philip Smith. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 8 3/4 inches x 7 1/2; textured brown cloth and marbled paper covered, hardcover folder with yellow binding cord; this folder contains a copy of "British Book Arts Today", with a foreword by Philip Smith & Preface by Tom Phillips, and short biographies of bookbinders represented in the October, 1988 exhibition; illustrated with monochrome photos of bindings. The folder contains a specially printed folded sheet with a winged horses & books illustration, designed and signed by Jan Sobota (1939-2012), and numbered by him; and the printed: "Opening Address" given by Philip Smith, on October 8, 1988 in Geneva, Ohio; the address is signed by Philip Smith at the end; also present, is a color photo postcard of Philip Smith's binding for the 1931 Golden Cockerel Press "Four Gospels", created in 1987-88, this card is also signed by Philip Smith. Bookbinders represented in the exhibtion catalogue: Philip Smith, Trevor Jones, Sarah Firmin, Dee Odell-Foster, Angela James, David Sellars, Jenni Grey, Romilly Saumarez Smith, Nikki Bell & Ben Langlands. Very scarce item. Signed by Author(s).…