Au bord de l'eau /
Tousseul, Jean,1890-1944.
Mechelen, Julia van.
Soutar, Elizabeth A.
National Library of Scotland.
Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition(1999)
Liége : Jean Mawet,
[1930]
Limited ed. of 215 copies.
Binding by Julia van Mechelan, student winner of the Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition 1999 held by the National Library of Scotland.
Half leather French frame binding in Oasis Bordeaux, with goat leather covering the spine and the boardedges. Each board is filled up with pigskin, decorated with silk-screened prints in red-purple oil colours and partly covered with high glazed varnish. The fly leaves and doublures are Bordeaux handmade Japanese papers, with leather hinges. The headbands are handmade and sewn with three colours of silk, corresponding to the colours of the leather. The title is printed in black on the spine, by hand.