The Red Badge of Courage

Bronze Statuettes of the Italian Renaissance

The Lady of Shalott

The Garden of Karma
by Laurence Hope.  William Heinemann, 1903
210 x 148mm.  Bound: 1998
Private collection.

Sewn on tapes with leather jointed 'W' endpapers. Graphite edges.
Goatskin spine and foredge strips. Leather endbands. Upper and lower boards covered in
panels of hand painted paper and silk. Hand painted paper onlays on panels and spine.
Lettered on the spine in black.

• Having served a five-year apprenticeship, Stephen worked at the Scolar Press fine bindery, Ilkley and Smith Settle, Otley, before establishing his own business in1985. 

• He currently runs a small bindery in Halifax, West Yorkshire, working mainly on private press editions, presentation work, commissions and design binding.

• In 1998 he won the Designer Bookbinders Silver medal, and in 2000 was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders.

• His design bindings are housed in private collections and institutions worldwide, including The British Library and The National Library of Scotland.

• His bindings have a tactile quality, something he feels to be in keeping with the three-dimensional properties of the book format. He tries to give them an atmosphere, sympathetic to the text, through the use of colour, texture, materials and design. He is interested in the complete book, non-figurative interpretation and music, and works towards combining these three elements to produce books which link them through design, sound and function.’
  
  
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