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Fine Binding and Artists Books

Guestbook/Diary

Brown goat full leather binding with multicoloured leather onlays and gold tooling, leather hinges.

E Mervyn Taylor

German Vellum Binding

Full vellum binding with airbrushed decoration. Japanese style wrap box in nightblue saffian leather with vellum onlays.

Native NZ Birds

Bennett Brothers

Rust red oasis goat full leather binding with grey leather onlays and gold tooling, leather hinges.

Tibet

Treasure of Tibet

Springback ledger binding covered in cloth. Both binding and solander box screen printed with Tibetan calligraphy. Antique silk endbands.

Song of Solomon

Black Plexiglass binding

The Song of Songs which is Solomon's in 5 languages. Limited Edition Print by Kranich Verlag, Switzerland Plexiglass binding after Edgar Claes.

Collected Poems by J K Baxter

Oxford University Press

Full leather binding in Nigerian goat, design tooled in red foil.

A Collection of Native New Zealand Birds

Bound in blue saffian leather, hand decorated with silver foil. Published by The Bennett Brothers in an edition of 150, this book is a pritner’s proof

Double Bush binding

Open spine binding sewn on vellum tapes, spine in Australian crocodile split, boards trimmed in goat leather with Sydney blue gum wood veneer.

Double Bush binding Ozymandias

Artists Book based on P B Shelly's poem Ozymandias, with photographs from Egypt.

Craggy Range Winery Guest Book

Quarter leather bound with engraved acrylic boards.

Fish Skin Book

Bound in New Zealand Hoki skin.

Caligraphy Box

Six-sided box covered in Karavan and Oasis goat with brushholder.