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Alain Koren // bound for 2008 ARA-Canada exhibition // full leather French fine binding in ivory box calf, leather onlays and inlays

Alain Koren

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Alain Taral // bound for 2008 ARA-Canada exhibition // bound in pink rosewood, inlaid with many exotic woods, white titling on spine
by Alain Taral

Alain Taral

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Ana Hernando-Gaona // Nobel Museum Bookbinding Exhibition 2013 - Tomas Tranströmer

Ana Hernando-Gaona

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A Midsummer NIght's Dream bound by Ann Tout for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013 - Shakespeare
Ann Tout - The Periodic Table (Society of Bookbinders)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám bound by Ann Tout

Ann Tout

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Water bound by Annette Friedrich in 2008
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman bound by Annette Friedrich
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf bound by Annette Friedrich // bound in full green goatskin, tooling on front and back covers in three shades of silver, white and gray

Annette Friedrich

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Boven Kamer rebound by Ben Elbel // pop-up structure with sewn folios for compensation; title appears along spine in a "stair-step"
Boven Kamer rebound by Ben Elbel // pop-up structure with sewn folios for compensation; title appears along spine in a "stair-step"
Boven Kamer rebound by Ben Elbel // pop-up structure with sewn folios for compensation; title appears along spine in a "stair-step"

Ben Elbel

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La Couleur du Vent bound by Cecile Cote // ARA-Canada International exhibition // bound in full green goatskin, red and green buffalo inlays, raised raw-edge onlays, gold foil tooled highlights
Binding by Cecile Cote

Cecile Cote

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Chrisine Giard // Nobel Museum Bookbinding Exhibition 2013 - Tomas Tranströmer

Chrisine Giard

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Barbara Hogson and Claudia Cohen. Occupied by Color. Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2012. 7 x 8.5 inches.

Claudia Cohen

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Formation: A Guild of Book Workers Exhibition
Grand and Sublime Scenery by W.W. Elliot bound by Coleen Curry // French-style fine binding covered in black Morocco goatskin with matching edge to edge doublures, cover has an embedded Colorado agate, panel open three-quarters outward to reveal a layer of blind tooled lacunose and two layers of Japanese paper
La Couleur du Vent bound by Coleen Curry // bound in red water buffalo with chartreuse water buffalo edge to edge doublures, exotic leather inlays of varying depths, flyleaves are decorated paper made by Coleen

Coleen Curry

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The Phaedo of Plato bound by Derek Hood // bound in light blue goatskin with inlays of goatskin and alum-tawed calfskin
Ulysses bound by Derek Hood // covered in full dark blue goatskin with onlays and inlays in various leathers. Joyce's handwritten manuscript of Ulysses printed on natural calfskin and used as onlays.
Hamlet bound by Derek Hood for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition - Shakespeare 2013

Derek Hood

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SOME BIRDS AND BEASTS AND THEIR FEASTS bound by Dominic Riley

Dominic Riley

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Thirstland Treks by Carel Birkby bound by Edgar Mansfield
Room and Book by Paul Nash bound by Edgar Mansfield
From the Third Programme, 1956.  Binder: Edgar Mansfield.

Edgar Mansfield

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eleanore ramsey, Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf
You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Eleanore Ramsey // bound in morocco; gold and blind tooled onlays in various colors of chagrin, morocco, oasis and box calf; 3-D tomato juice can inset in front cover

Eleanore Ramsey

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Estelle Cabannes // bound for 1996 ARA-Canada exhibition

Estelle Cabannes

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Formation: A Guild of Book Workers Exhibition

Gabby Cooksey

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Georges Leroux

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You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Gerard Charriere // covered in purple Oasis with multicolored onlays; palladium, blind and iridescent colored foil tooling; hand decorated endpapers
You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Gerard Charriere // covered in purple Oasis with multicolored onlays; palladium, blind and iridescent colored foil tooling; hand decorated endpapers
You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Gerard Charriere // covered in purple Oasis with multicolored onlays; palladium, blind and iridescent colored foil tooling; hand decorated endpapers

Gerard Charriere

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La Couleur du Vent bound by Ghislaine Bureau // ARA-Canada International exhibition // bound in full lambskin, embossed with pen highlights

Ghislaine Bureau

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The Trial by Franz Kafka bound by Haein Song // full black goatskin with reverse pared natural goatskin onlays, hand printed endpapers
Romeo and Juliet bound by Haein Song // full leather maroon goatskin, linear onlays of natural goatskin, mono printed endpapers and suede doublures
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus bound by Haein Song // Bradel style binding, spine is covered in natural goatskin with dark blue vellum covers, dashed tooled in gold, endpapers are hand printed

Haein Song

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The Somme: An Eye Witness History bound by Hannah Brown
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, bound by Hannah Brown
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote bound by Hannah Brown // bound in full blue goatskin with a variety of colored onlays, embroidery and painted elements

Hannah Brown

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bound by Hélène Francoeur // brown calfskin raised raw-edge inlays, shaped beveled boards, reverse sanding

Hélène Francoeur

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You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Hugo Peller // bound in black goatskin; white goatskin strip inlayed across spine and covers; gold tooled covers and title; housed in Wehmais/Wiemar fold-out box
You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Hugo Peller // bound in black goatskin; white goatskin strip inlayed across spine and covers; gold tooled covers and title; housed in Wehmais/Wiemar fold-out box
You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover by Bernard C. Middleton bound by Hugo Peller // bound in black goatskin; white goatskin strip inlayed across spine and covers; gold tooled covers and title; housed in Wehmais/Wiemar fold-out box

Hugo Peller

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Ilona Kiss // Nobel Museum Bookbinding Exhibition 2013 - Tomas Tranströmer

Ilona Kiss

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Chaucer bound in two types of black leather and tooled in gold.  Binder:  Ivor Robinson, 1971.

Ivor Robinson

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