Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, from bookbinder Jeanette Koch
(Jeanette Koch – Bookbinder) Journey to the Centre of the Earth. By Jules Verne. Translated by William Butcher. Introduced by Michael Crichton. Illustrated by Grahame Baker. The Folio Society. 2001. 231p. 9” x 6.5”. 9 full-page color illustrations. Unique binding by Jeanette Koch in 2002. Sides covered in multicolored resist-dyed vellum. Spine, covered separately, is made up of resist-dyed calf bands with painted edges between sanded goatskin sewing stations. Multi-colored sprinkled edges. Pale blue suede doublures. Brown and pink handmade Ingres endpapers. Laid in a green cloth dropback box lined with dusky-pink handmade paper; illustrated paper title label on spine. Binder’s stamp at spine edge of back doublure. Fine.
Koch writes: “I wanted to create the chaos and bubbling magma of the earth’s core. The blue-brown-pink colours inside lead into thecolouring of the first frontispiece illustration.”
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