Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Antigone
By Sophocles.  The Allen Press
Crimson and beige scarf joined goatskin; beige and crimson goatskin onlays. Gold tooling and lettering.

A Classical Friendship

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde.  Old Stile Press 2000
Wood engravings by Garick Palmer
Black and dyed grey goatskin; Japanese paper underlay; blind tooling. Lettered in gold

• Self employed bookbinder.

• Attended adult education courses at Bolt Court under the tuition of Sally Lou Smith over a period of years.

• Believes in traditional materials and methods.

• Elected Licenciate in 1992 and Fellow of DB in 1995.

• Public collections: British Library; Royal Library of Copenhagen; Royal Library of the Hague. Private collections in the UK, Europe and USA .