Lester Capon

   

      

Le Poisson Mal Recompense
by Gabriel de Lautrec
Kickshaws Press 2005
150 x 170 x 15mm.  Bound 2007
Full green goatskin, multicoloured onlays of goat, calf and frogskin, and paper.
Gold and coloured tooling. Inlaid leather lines. Crimson goatskin doublures.

Canals, Barges and People
Written and engraved by John O’Connor
Art & Technics 1950
210 x 170mm.  Bound 2005
Pierced vellum binding with multi-coloured goatskin underlays. Gold tooling
on vellum. Titled down spine on multi - coloured goatskin onlays.

Through The Woods
by H.E.Bates
Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker
265 x 205 x 30mm.  Bound 2007
Pierced vellum binding with hand stained paper underlays. Gold tooled. Spine lettered in gold.

An Alphabetic Assemblage of Bookbinding
400 x 850mm.  Made 2006
Type tray with new compartments - one for each letter of the alphabet.
Compartments contain either one or several bookbinding related items;
materials, techniques, tools, etc. made, found or adapted, and arranged by the binder.

• Self-employed bookbinder, restorer and conservator. 

• Summer school tutor at Tyrvaan kasi-ja taideteollisuuoppilaitos.

• Occasional short course tuition.

• Trained at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts 1975 - 1977.

• Assistant to James Brockman 1977 - 1993.

• Course manager for full and part time classes at Guildford College of Further and Higher Education 1993 - 2000.

• Elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders 1986 and has exhibited regularly since then - President of DB 2003 - 05. Work represented in British Library, Liverpool Central Library, John Rylands Library, Harry Ransome Humanities Research Library, Texas and private collections.

• Usually works with traditional methods and materials, putting them into a modern context.
  
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