Bonhams, 580 Madison Ave., New York, NY, from Friday 10–19 April, 2015
My binding of
New York Revisited
by Kenneth Auchincloss is part of this touring exhibition organized by
Designer Bookbinders UK. "InsideOUT celebrates the art and craft of
contemporary bookbinding and private press printing. This ambitious
project is a collaboration between thirty-four binders based in the
United Kingdom and twenty-five based in North America."
New York Revisited
was designed, illustrated with colour wood engravings and printed by
Gaylord Schanilec, and published in 2002 by The Grolier Club, New York. 7
x 12 inches. 44 pages. Edition of 250 copies (this copy ex-edition), 9
full-page color wood engravings
and 2 vignettes by Gaylord Schanilec. Type composed in Emerson Monotype.
Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper.
The
binding uses white alum-tawed goatskin, inkjet, acrylic
ink, blind and gold tooling, and is inset with diamonds and other
gemstones. The main image on the cover is a detail of a view looking
down Fifth Avenue – the view extends inside the front and back covers
where it faces views of Lexington Avenue.
In
these images we see a contrast between the rich and poor, exemplified
by the stocking feet jutting out from a shop doorway, and the bustle of
pedestrians. These are paste-grained and form the leather-jointed
endpapers.
The polished leather on the front cover, embedded with real gemstones, again highlights this contrast.
The
book is presented in a drop back box together with an extra set of
Schanilec's engravings and prints from the original blocks engraved by
Rudolph Ruzicka for the book
New York, published by the Grolier Club in 1915.
This binding is now in a private collection.
Designer Bookbinders
Bonham's
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