Il Cantico Delle Creature Di Francesco Di Assisi [Art Binding]

Book Description

Italy: Errebi di Falconara, 2001. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Tight, bright and unmarred. Full leather binding in natural goatskin, traditional style, tight joints and tight back; sewn on cords and tapes; raised bands continue into the boards, becoming part of the medieval arches; recesses on the boards are representations of all the "creations" done in blind tooling, leather onlays and linoleum-cut embossings; tooled silver stars, blind tooled title; worked linen headbands, coloured and tooled top edge; endpapers of a gilt on beige Japanese paper with leather hinges. Matching drop-back box with padded homespun cotton lining. 8vo. 349pp. Index. Limited numbered edition, this being 590 of 1000. Signed by the binder. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in London, and with Roger Powell in England. She established her studio, the Merlicorn Bindery, on Nantucket in 1975, which she moved to Maine in 1985. She specializes in one-of-a-kind creative ne binding, all aspects of rare book restoration, and general hand bookbinding.

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