Andrew Brown, Bookbinder. The Man Who Planted Trees
(Brown, Andrew – Bookbinder) The Man who planted Trees. [By] Jean Giono. Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy. Afterword by Norma L. Goodrich. Peter Owen. London. 2004. 52p. 9” x 6”. Black and white wood engravings throughout.
Unique binding by Andrew Brown, 2007. Bound in strips of different colored leather and strips of photographic images of trees printed on handmade paper. Title in a metallic green on spine. Blind tooling of leaves at the bottom of the covering leather strips. All edges colored in acrylic. Endpapers in two shades of green; the front pastedown with a copy of an illustration. Housed in a suede-lined green cloth dropback box with a brown and white illustration on the front. Signed in pencil at the end of the book with the place and date in ink. Laid in the box is a sheet signed by Brown giving details of the binding. Fine.
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