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Illustrated Books

Finely bound and illustrated limited-edition copy of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.<ul><li>Geoffrey Chaucer (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Eric Gill (English).</li><li>London: Folio Society, 2011.</li><li>328 pages.</li><li>Limited edition of 1,250 copies, this being number 275.&nbsp;</li><li>Accompanying 48-page commentary volume.</li><li>Bound in full black goatskin with illustrated design, top edge gilt, satin bookmark.</li><li>Housed in a buckram clamshell solander box.</li></ul>

Troilus and Criseyde

This&nbsp;reproduction of the Esther Scroll, is a&nbsp;richly illustrated continuous text, depicting the story of Esther in contemporary German, the only one of its kind.<ul><li>Commentary volume by Falk Wiesemann (German).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2012.</li><li>Edition of 1,746.</li><li>Manuscript in wooden display with commentary volume.</li></ul>

The Esther Scroll

Finely bound copy of the&nbsp;Letterpress Edition of&nbsp;Pictorial Webster's&nbsp;in artist binding with pop-out illustrations.<ul><li>John M. Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Karen Hanmer (American).</li><li>London: Quercus Press, 2006.</li><li>Illustrations from Pictorial Webster’s wall cards and laser printed onto goatskin onlays and outlined with inlaid goatskin lines with 33 additional illustrations on Mohawk.</li><li>Limited to 16 unbound copies.</li><li>Bound in full leather with leather hinges, marbled endsheets, and doublures hand-printed with hand-sewn silk headbands and the page edges sprinkled with red acrylic ink.</li><li>A copy of the brochure and book included with a signed artist statement from Karen Hanmer.</li></ul> Selected for the "Hand Bookbinders of California Fortieth Annual Member’s Exhibition" at Stamford University (July 19–December 12, 2012).

Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

<ul><li>Signed limited-edition copy of Carrera's illustrated Webster's pictorial dictionary.</li><li>John Carrera (American).</li><li>Binding by Constance Wozny (American).</li><li>Waltham: Quercus Press, 2009.</li><li>Limited edition of 265, this is number 48.</li><li>Singed by the publisher on title page.</li><li>Bound in full goat leather over boards with stamped circles of yellow, red and green with the title stamped horizontally and vertically on the front cover, top edge is colored to match the handmade flyleaf paper.</li><li>Housed in a black cloth clamshell box with the motif of the binding appearing on the spine, inside box has matching handmade paper as the flyleaf with additional imagery stamped on the paper.</li></ul> Webster’s pictorial dictionary is a meticulously printed study of the art of 19th century scientific and black-line wood engravings.&nbsp;From the publisher, “The Pictorial Webster's is, in simplest terms, an artistic visual reference of what was important to 19th Century America. The 400-plus page volume is printed with the original wood engravings and copper electrotypes of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries of the 19th Century; namely the 1859 American Dictionary of the English Language (the 1st illustrated dictionary in America), the 1864 edition of that same Dictionary, and the 1890 International Dictionary. The engravings are arranged alphabetically, a system of organization long shunned by lexicographers because alphabetical order grants no intrinsic meaning to any given grouping of words, but it is perfect for a book that creates its own immersive experience in imagery of a time gone by.”A total of 265 signed and numbered unbound copies were produced so that unique bindings could be created by members of the Guild of Bookworkers, who were selected to participate in the 2002 exhibition featuring this work. This is copy 48, which is signed by the publisher John Carrera. Constance Wozny has been a bookbinder for over 18 years and her creations are widely exhibited in various exhibitions and juried shows in the United States, France, England, Australia and Tokyo. Her bindings are included in the permanent collections of numerous institutions ranging from the Special Collections Department of the Chicago Main Library to the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor. She holds a degree in marketing from Eastern Kentucky University and has studied with many notable book artists and fine binders including Tini Miura, Monique Lallier, Dominic Riley and Don Ethington. Her artistic works have been featured in book art exhibition venues locally, nationally and internationally, as well as in several book art publications. Her studio is located in Louisville, Kentucky.

Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

For six years,&nbsp;Sebastião Salgado&nbsp;traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—this&nbsp;irreplaceable treasure of humanity&nbsp;in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.<ul><li>Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian).</li><li>Edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado (Brazilian).</li><li>Bookstand designed by Renzo Piano (Italian).</li><li>Köln:&nbsp;Taschen, 2021.</li><li>472 pages.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>SUMO-sized.</li><li>Edition of 2,000.</li><li>Numbered and signed by Salgado.</li><li>Presented with a clothbound caption book explaining each stunning shot and a bookstand.</li></ul>

Amazônia

A beautifully illustrated, signed edition of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte.<ul><li>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian).</li><li>Balthus (French).</li><li>Così Fan Tutte: Dramma Giocoso in Due Atti.</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;[2001].</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Number 55 from a limited edition of 300 copies signed by Balthus.&nbsp;</li><li>With 6 watercolors by Balthus, reproduced by Keiji Shinohara with multicolor woodblock.</li><li>Teal silk over boards, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather label on upper board, in teal silk clamshell.</li><li>Includes a housing a recording (3 CDs) of the entire opera as presented at the Aix-en-Provence festival of July 1957 with prospectus laid in.</li></ul>

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Geoffrey Chaucer, Eric Gill

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Balthus