Brockman (Stuart, binder).- See-Paynton (Colin) Of a Feather: Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly..., number 79 of 135 copies from an edition limited to 150, printed in pale green and black, title with feather vignette in gold, wood-engraved plates and illustrations by the author, many full-page, bound in dark red goatskin, by Stuart Brockman, covers with design of "wings" of thin onlaid parallel lines in blue goatskin and airbrushed calf shaded in blue and yellow and background with grid of lines tooled in gilt and black, spine titled in gilt with horizontal lines, multicoloured silk double endbands, g.e., binder's ticket to top corner of front free endpaper, with prospectus and related ephemera, together in black goatskin-backed black cloth drop-back box lined in blue velvet, folio (c.370 x 280mm.), Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2008. ⁂ Superb binding commissioned by Anthony Dowd in 2010. "The design represents birds in flight/flapping wings, the parallel lines represent feathers...The birds are supported and restricted by the outer frame representing the Earth. The variation in thickness of the gold lines as well as combining blue with black gives an indication of perspective and shade...". From design specification by the binder (loosely inserted).
Brockman (Stuart, binder).- See-Paynton (Colin) Of a Feather: Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly..., number 79 of 135 copies from an edition limited to 150, printed in pale green and black, title with feather vignette in gold, wood-engraved plates and illustrations by the author, many full-page, bound in dark red goatskin, by Stuart Brockman, covers with design of "wings" of thin onlaid parallel lines in blue goatskin and airbrushed calf shaded in blue and yellow and background with grid of lines tooled in gilt and black, spine titled in gilt with horizontal lines, multicoloured silk double endbands, g.e., binder's ticket to top corner of front free endpaper, with prospectus and related ephemera, together in black goatskin-backed black cloth drop-back box lined in blue velvet, folio (c.370 x 280mm.), Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2008. ⁂ Superb binding commissioned by Anthony Dowd in 2010. "The design represents birds in flight/flapping wings, the parallel lines represent feathers...The birds are supported and restricted by the outer frame representing the Earth. The variation in thickness of the gold lines as well as combining blue with black gives an indication of perspective and shade...". From design specification by the binder (loosely inserted).
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