Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph.
T. E. Lawrence
54 plates and four fold-out maps
First Trade Edition. 4to.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1935
257 x 193 x 56
Bound 2020 for George Bayntun georgebayntun.com – exhibited at FIRSTS London’s Rare Book Fair firstslondon.com (December 2020)
Full light tan goatskin, leather jointed endpapers and marbled doublure. Hand tooled in gold leaf. Gilt top edge in red gold leaf. Hand-sewn endbands.
Radical – A catalogue of Art from a Socialist era
Bound 2020 for Edward Bayntun – Coward
260 x 180 x 30
Full black goatskin, leather jointed endpapers and Chyogami doublure. Hand tooled in red/black coloured pigment foils. Hand painted edges in scarlet radiant watercolour. Title in red golf leaf. Hand-sewn endbands.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote
First Edition. 8vo
Random House, New York, 1958
235 x 175 x 20
Bound 2019
Full blue goatskin. Hand painted endpapers. Hand tooled in coloured pigment foils. Gilt edges in gold leaf. Hand sewn endbands.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel.
George Orwell
First Edition. 8vo.
Secker & Warburg, London, 1949
180 x 120 x 33
Bound 2020 for George Bayntun
Bound in full grey goatskin with marbled endpapers. Hand tooled and lettered in gold leaf and red pigment foil. Gilt edges in red gold leaf. Hand-sewn endbands.
Agatha Christie’s Novels
First Edition.
The Crime Club, W. Collins & Co, London, 1950
210 x 140 x 35
Bound 2020 for George Bayntun
Tan goatskin and Heritage Buckram black. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt and spine lettered in gold leaf. Hand-sewn endbands.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote
Folio Society, London, 1956
200 x 160 x 25
Bound 2019
Full crimson goatskin. Hand painted endpapers. Gilt top edge in gold leaf. Hand tooled in gold leaf with scarlet labels. Hand-sewn endbands.
Brave New World. A Novel.
Aldous Huxley
First Edition. 8vo.
Chatto & Windus, London, 1932
173 x 115 x 31
Bound 2020 for George Bayntun – exhibited at FIRSTS London’s Rare Book Fair (December 2020)
Full black goatskin with crimson triangles inlays. Yellow/black onlays. Hand tooled in gold leaf and black pigment foil. Gilt edges in red gold leaf. Hand-sewn endbands. Clamshell box.
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
First Edition. 8vo
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977
220 x 140 x 35
Bound 2020 for George Bayntun.
Full grey goatskin with Japanese handmade endpapers. Hand tooled and lettered in gold leaf. Gilt edges in gold leaf. Hand-sewn endbands.
Ocean d’un seul sel
Bruno Mathon, Anne de Staël
28 of 30 books printed by Pascal Duriez
First published by Monique Mathieu-Frénaud, Paris, 2006
270 x 200 x 15
Bound 2023 for QEST fundraising dinner and exhibited in
March 2023 at V&A Museum in London
Full peacock blue goatskin. Hand painted endpapers & endbands in
acrylic. Gold ceramic mounted into the cover (handmade and hand
painted ceramic by Elisa D’Arienzo). Hand
tooled in gold leaf.
Aristofane
Printed by A. Cacciari
Engraved by A. De Carolis
Published by Nicola Zanichelly, Bologna (IT), 1925
160 x 100 x 30
Bound 2023 for QEST fundraising dinner and exhibited in
March 2023 at V&A Museum in London
Full green goatskin. Full leather doublures and joints, suede flyleaves.
Hand sewn silk endbands. Hand tooled in coloured pigment foils.