Stackpole Julie Binder (2 results)
Published by Folio Society, London, 1981
- Hardcover
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerFull Leather. Condition: Fine in Fine Custom Slipcase. Second Printing/Unique Binding. Second Printing/Unique Binding. Full Leather. 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 Ve…rmont, 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. A elegant example of this binder's earlier work. Hint of glue staining at rfep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Traditional full leather binding in emerald green Niger goatskin; geometric tooling across full cover in gilt and black; worked silk headbands, teg; endpapers in Japanese tissue over purple paste papers by the binder. Purple cloth rounded spine slipcase and sleeve, sleeve lined with felt, green leather spine label, gilt lettering. Small 8vo. 163pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Les Contes de Ma Mere L'Oye. [Art Binding]
Perrault, Charles; Delprat, Sophie (illus); Herault, Claire (illus); Koechlin, Lionel (illus); Zirnhelt, Jean-Louis (illus); Stackpole, Julie (binder)
Published by Biennales Mondiales de la Reliure D' Art, Chevreuse, France, 2006
- Hardcover
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Text in French. This binding was produced for an international competition/exhibition in France for which this textblock was specially produced (the signatures provided to the binders "in sheets"). The artist c…hose collage as a means to bring the various tales to light, the endpages (and balancing block in the front) was chosen as the various colors and feeling of the marbled papers tie all the various panels together. The stories/panels are: Front Board: "Red Riding Hood": Red wool cloth & wolf/coyote fur. "Sleeping Beauty": William Morris paper. "The Faries": Snakeskin, ostrich skin (for the toads), Redoute rose paper (the prince), rhinestones. Sample of the endpaper's marbled paper. "Griselidis": Finely-curled sheepskin (the shepardess) and a Florentine paper (the prince). "Cinderella": Fabric used in Cinderella's dress for a play over fleur de lys paper. Back Board: "Bluebeard": Blue-dyed curly fur over a Gibson Girls paper in red. "The Silly Wishes": The peasant's elongated nose in flesh leather, over paper. "Riquet of the Tuft": Paper with an 18th cent. courtly scene over a formal paper. "Donkey Skin": Fabrics of sky-blue moire, gold lace, and cloth of silver under ratty gray leather. "Puss-In-Boots": Rabbit fur in a course linen "sack" over a paper with cat. A whimsical and beautifully excuted binding. Tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Full celadon green goatskin boards, 12 recessed panels, each decorated in various media (fabrics, fur, paper, leather, snakeskin, etc) to illustrate one of the 11 stories (plus one with the endpage as a unifying element), black ink lettering at spine on green and red leather labels, custom silk headbands, top of textblock colored to match endpages, marbled endpages, leather hinges; slipcase has in blind tooled leather label, lined with padded brushed white denim. 8vo. 171pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited edition, this being copy 246.