2017
Albion and Albanius: An Opera
Mr. (John) Dryden, London 1691.
A variation on Carmencho Arregui's crossed structure binding, with tabbed corners. Handmade paper, unbleached and unwaxed linen thread, mottled calfskin vellum.
226x170x9mm
2016
The Modern Cabinet of Arts
T.C. Thornton, London 1841.
Original boards; hand-gilded aero-cotton and original turn-ins.
130x82x25mm
2013
Sacred Dramas
Hannah Moore, c.1818.
Original boards; hand-coloured cotton joints; hand-decorated, hand-made paper spine and hand-coloured Kozo-shi tissue repairs.
2013
Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1807.
Slotted spine binding. Original boards; linen thread and mottled vellum.
2011
Q. Haratii Flacci Carmina Expurgata.
Josepho Juvencio, 1784.
Conserved binding 'Kintsugi' style. Hand-dyed alum tawed thongs, hand gilded hand-made paper.
2010
Hudibras
Samuel Butler, (London 1817)
Adapted 'simplified binding'. Hand decorated, hand-made paper spine and hand-coloured, hand-made paper over archival millboard boards.
2008
The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem.
Robert Bloomfield (London 1820).
'Clip-on cover binding II'. Hand decorated hand-made paper cover that clips onto the endpapers, to which the book is sewn.
2007
Cecilia or memoirs of an Heiress - vol. 2.
'By the author of Evelina' (Frances Burney), London 1782.
Limp paper 'Disappearing spine binding'. 'Dutch gilt' paper and hand-coloured threads.
2006
The Thistle: A Dispassionate Examen of the Prejudice of Englishmen
in General to the Scotch Nation.
1747.
'Clip-on-cover binding'. Hand-decorated hand-made paper cover that clips onto the endpapers, to which the book is sewn.
2006
Secret Love or the Maiden Queen.
John Dryden, 1669.
'Clip-on-cover binding'. Mottled vellum cover that clips onto the endpapers, to which the book is sewn, hand-made paper and leather thongs.
2005
The Poetical Works of the Rt. Hon. George Canning MP.
George Canning, c. 1820.
Vellum 'Wrap-around binding'.
2005
The English Pope
London, 1643.
'Clip-on-cover binding'. Hand-decorated hand-made paper cover that clips onto the endpapers,
to which the book is sewn.
2004
The Works of Edmund Waller.
1758.
Limp paper wrapper binding. Mouldmade paper and hand-coloured thread.
2004
Much Ado About Nothing.
William Shakespeare, 1735.
Limp paper 'Wrap-around binding'. Hand-made paper.
2004
Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress - Vol. 1.
By the author of Evelina (Frances Burney), London, 1782
Limp 'Clip-on-cover binding'. Hand-coloured paper cover that clips onto the endpapers,
to which the book is sewn, hand-dyed linen threads.
2004
Oeuvres, vol. 1.
Rabelais, 1725.
Limp paper binding. Hand-coloured hand-made paper, sewn on hand-coloured alum tawed thongs.
2003
The Popes Nuntioes.
1643.
Limp hand-made paper binding sewn on manuscript vellum.