Jacob Cats

Emblemata Amatoria

Full calf with found object debossings, brass keyhole inset. Bound in 1999.

Design binding by Don Taylor.

M J Hyland

Carry Me Down

Sewn on four tapes, the edges coloured using acrylics, colours of browns, white, red and touches of green. Silk sewn headbands of matching colours to tone with the marked brown leather wrapped around the boards in the ‘Tudor’ style completing with the face looking towards a misunderstood future life. The face is in natural colour leather and onlaid onto the brown marked strips of goatskin. The blind lines are a kind of imprisonment, this effect also hints from the inside covers, which are covered in mid green leather. The book is housed in a protective up and over box coloured in cream buckram and lined inside with suede. Bound by Paul C Delrue.

Winner of Man Booker Prize.