Bookbinder Sayaka Fukada and poet John Betjeman

$2,600.00

( - Bookbinder) John Betjeman Selected Poems. Edited by Alan Powers. Drawings by Peter Bailey. The Folio Society. London. 2004. 222p. 9” x 6.5”. Illustrations in color and black and white throughout; black and white photographic reproductions. Unique binding by in 2005. Bound in full grey goat skin decorated with reverse transfer prints from photograph taken by the binder on Tengujo (Japanese paper); blind tooling and title. Multicolored hand sewn headbands; edges decorated with water colour paint in shades of gray. Endpapers created by layered images of reverse transfer prints on Tengujo and Zerkall. Grey goat skin doublures with paper inlays continuing the images from endpapers. Laid in a brown cloth dropback box with paper title label on spine and lined with gray-green suede. Laid in the box is a card with image of binding, relief printed title and the words ‘Bound by in 2005’, plus Fukada’s stamp and signature in Japanese. Fine.

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