2018
Table Talk and Other Poems
William Cowper, London 1825.
'Sacred Binding' using the original boards, gold-tooled calfskin vellum spine and handpainted marbled cotton joints. Repairs to board edges and corners made with gilded Japanese tissue.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2019
De Imitatione Christi
Thomas a Kempis, 1759.
Textblock sewn onto hand-made linen cords with a supported link-stitch sewing. Cords laced through a slotted calfskin vellum spine into 3 layers of Zaanschbord.
230 x 188 x 24mm
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2019
De Imitatione Christi (front view)
Thomas a Kempis, 1759.
2019
De Imitatione Christi (spine)
Thomas a Kempis, 1759.
2017
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper, London 1861.
'Sacred Binding' using the original boards, handpainted calfskin vellum and handpainted linen joints.
272x205x39mm
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2017
Culpeper's Complete Herbal (lying)
Nicholas Culpeper, London 1861.
272x205x39mm
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
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
2016
The Modern Cabinet of Arts
T.C. Thornton, London 1841.
Original boards; hand-gilded aero-cotton and original turn-ins.
130x82x25mm
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2013
Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1807.
Slotted spine binding. Original boards; linen thread and mottled vellum.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2011
Q. Haratii Flacci Carmina Expurgata.
Josepho Juvencio, 1784.
Conserved binding 'Kintsugi' style. Hand-dyed alum tawed thongs, hand gilded hand-made paper.
Photography by John Hammond.
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.
Photography by John Hammond.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2005
The Poetical Works of the Rt. Hon. George Canning MP.
George Canning, c. 1820.
Vellum 'Wrap-around binding'.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2004
The Works of Edmund Waller.
1758.
Limp paper wrapper binding. Mouldmade paper and hand-coloured thread.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2004
Much Ado About Nothing.
William Shakespeare, 1735.
Limp paper 'Wrap-around binding'. Hand-made paper.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
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.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2004
Oeuvres, vol. 1.
Rabelais, 1725.
Limp paper binding. Hand-coloured hand-made paper, sewn on hand-coloured alum tawed thongs.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.
2003
The Popes Nuntioes.
1643.
Limp hand-made paper binding sewn on manuscript vellum.
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Private collection.