The watercolour design is an image of a battle scene as described within the text.
Winner of the Harmatan Leather Prize in the Designer Bookbinders competition 2009.

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(Brockman, Stuart – Bookbinder) Land. Landscape engravings by Garrick Palmer. Poems selected by Eric Williams. [Llandogo, Monmouthshire. 1996.] 46p. 10.75” x 8.75”. Printed in Poliphilus, with Blado, and handset on Zerkall mouldmade. Garrick Palmer’s wood engravings all printed from the wood. No. 17 in an edition of 240 copies signed and numbered by the artist.

Unique binding by Stuart Brockman in April 2009. Signed with his label on a front free endpaper. Book sewn on four tapes; spine glued and shaped; laminated cushioned boards made up and laced on. Red sewn endbands. Spine lined with unbleached cotton and acid free paper. Covered in full green French Levant with boards stabilized. Design of gilt areas, gold tooling and various colored goatskin circular onlays. All edges gilt. Paste paper endpapers handmade. Housed in a deep red velvet lined green buckram dropback box, with recessed lettering label on the spine. Fine.

“The design shows circles that represent the moon and sun. The waves depict rolling hillsides; within the gilt areas there are tree shapes. The gold lines are representative of the linear nature of the illustrations within the book.” – Stuart Brockman. Poets include: Edward Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Clare, Ted Huges, Jeremy Hooker, Charles Tomlinson, Frances Horowitz, Sheenagh Push, Peter Gruffydd, Gillian Clarke, Helen Dunmore and Wendell Berry.

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(Brockman, Stuart – Bookbinder) The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons, being random reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V. By L.A.G. Strong. Golden Cockerel Press. London. 1935. 42(1)p. 9.5” x 6.25”. Six wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. An edition of 1000 unnumbered copies. Unique binding by Stuart Brockman done in 2008, with his label at the top of the first free flyleaf. Bound in full black goatskin with calf and goat onlays. Gold, red and blue tooling creates the design, with gold tooled title on spine. Plum Japanese paper endpapers. All edges gilt. Red head and tailbands. Black cloth box lined with black velvet. Black leather gilt title label. Fine.

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(Stuart Brockman – Bookbinder) The Abstract Garden. Poems by Philip Gross. Engravings by Peter Reddick. The Old Stile Press. Monmouthshire. 2006. n.p. 10.75” x 7.75”. Black and white wood engravings throughout printed from the original blocks. Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall on Zerkall Halbmatter in Spectrum. Unique binding by Stuart Brockman in 2007. Bound in full brown Levant with double sewn endbands. A rose design tooled in two shades of gold (lemon and red) on both boards. Gold lettered title on spine. Endpapers of brown patterned pastepaper. Binder’s label at top of first free endpapers. Black buckram dropback box lined with beige felt. Black title label on spine. Binder’s label at inside base of box. No. 165 in an edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed in pencil by the poet and engraver. Fine.

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Stuart Brockman was born in Cambridge in 1972. He graduated in 1995 with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London. He then trained full-time with his father, James. He has led workshops and has lectured  in the UK, Canada, Finland and the USA. He won the National Library of Scotland bookbinding competition in 2004 and was a judge at the fourth DeGolyer bookbinding Competition, Bridwell Library, Texas, in 2006. He has modern bindings in many private collections worldwide, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2004.

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