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Designer Binding (Miniature).- James (Angela, binder).- Ritchie (Ward) A Guide to the Hand Press, one of 200 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Anthony Christmas, bound in citron goatskin onlaid with letters and small dots in different colours and edged in pink goatskin, by Angela James, onlaid pink goatskin doublures, coloured endpapers, preserved in felt-lined citron goatskin folder fastened with pink triangular button and elastic loop, with manuscript note by the binder "This little book was bound by me, Angela James, at Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, England in 1989" loosely inserted, 76 x 55mm., Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1989.

⁂ Angela James (b. 1948) is a Fellow and past President of Designer Bookbinders. She trained at the Glasgow School of Art and was then apprenticed to Sydney Cockerell in 1970 where she worked with James Brockman. She won the Thomas Harrison Memorial Award with her first binding in 1974 and continues to exhibit regularly. Her work is held by many private and public collections. In 1991 the Fleece Press issued her miniature book The Art of Binding Books.

Description

Designer Binding (Miniature).- James (Angela, binder).- Ritchie (Ward) A Guide to the Hand Press, one of 200 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Anthony Christmas, bound in citron goatskin onlaid with letters and small dots in different colours and edged in pink goatskin, by Angela James, onlaid pink goatskin doublures, coloured endpapers, preserved in felt-lined citron goatskin folder fastened with pink triangular button and elastic loop, with manuscript note by the binder "This little book was bound by me, Angela James, at Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, England in 1989" loosely inserted, 76 x 55mm., Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1989.

⁂ Angela James (b. 1948) is a Fellow and past President of Designer Bookbinders. She trained at the Glasgow School of Art and was then apprenticed to Sydney Cockerell in 1970 where she worked with James Brockman. She won the Thomas Harrison Memorial Award with her first binding in 1974 and continues to exhibit regularly. Her work is held by many private and public collections. In 1991 the Fleece Press issued her miniature book The Art of Binding Books.

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