(Jeanette Koch – Bookbinder) Cyrano de Bergerac. By Edmond Rostand. Publ. Cercle de Relieure d’art à Ciboure 1998. (Reprint of Librarie Charpentier et Fasquelle, Paris 1898.) 182p. 11.25” x 7.75”. Unique binding by Jeanette Koch in 1999. Open joint structure. Top edge gilded and sanded. Boards covered with resist-dyed native goatskin and chickenfeet skin. Resist dyed calf spine and doublures. Five sanded straps fixed by patinated silver studs. Hemp paper endpapers. In a dark gray suede pouch sewn with cream stitching and a suede closure. Fine.

Koch writes: “Colours and patterns taken from the Frontispiece illustration of Cyrano. Boards resist-dyed with grafitti writing, recalling the letters, poems and tears of Cyrano. Gascon soldiers probably ate a lot of chicken – also the foot looks like an armorial glove!”

Related posts:

1. Campbell, Ken – Firedogs
2. Maa, Dean Dass’s visual meditation on our fragile planet
3. Circle Press — An African Folktale