Exhibition at the Fair

Three contemporary bookbinders

Kathy Abbott | Jen Lindsay | Tracey Rowledge

This small exhibition to be found on the stage at the Chelsea Fair, reflects three individual responses to the aims of bookbinding: to protect the book and to enhance it.

Bookbinding is an unique artform, taking as its starting point a pre-existing object: the printed book.

The bookbinder’s response to its physical properties and to its literary content lies at the heart of bookbinding: it is the delicate balance between the practical and the aesthetic which defines their art.
 

	Per Ardua MCMXIV _ MCMXVIII By Maurice Baring (Seven Acres Press at Long Crendon 1924) Bound by Tracey Rowledge, 2012 174 x 250 x 13mm Full bound in grey goatskin, rough edge gilt in Caplain gold leaf, sewn on a concertina with leather-jointed and hand-coloured endpapers, rounded and backed and gold tooled in Caplain gold leaf. Photograpy by Prudence Cumings Associates Ltd.
	Hamlet By William Shakespeare (Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart 1925) Bound by Jen Lindsay, 2002 - 2012 Titling by Tracey Rowledge 200 x 195 x 35mm Full leather binding in red native-dyed goatskin; navy blue endpapers (Michel Corbeau); navy blue silk endbands and rough gilt edges. Titling designed and executed by Tracey Rowledge (2012). Photograpy by Prudence Cumings Associates Ltd.
	Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961 (Published by Nonesuch Press, 482 of 750, 1961) By Frances Meynell Bound by Kathy Abbott, 2011 235 x 155 x 16mm Bound in chocolate brown goatskin with multi-coloured onlays. Photograpy by Prudence Cumings Associates Ltd.