The text is Arches Cover with illustrations in acrylic, gouache and ink. The text, hand-lettered and painted in gouache and shell gold with stamping and stitching, is inspired by historic and contemporary written forms. There are archway images with abecedarians and borders of real and invented letters. In a tight-back full oasis leather binding with blind impressions on a raised surface, the book has three dimensional onlays, painted Japanese endpapers and silk endbands. The text paper is Kitakata with illustrations printed on gampi inserts.
All papers are handmade of abaca and cotton.
The stencil designs are made with colored pulp. Edition of 4. 1998. Bound in full French Cape morocco with a framed portrait of a loon sculpted and tooled with mosaics of morocco, chagrin and box calf. The text consists of twenty-six wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, with calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Bound for Jane Pearce and Anne Howson.