The Art of Papermaking

LALANDE (Joseph de) & BOCEL (Joëlle)

The Art of Papermaking

One of 405 copies, this number 211. 14 plates. Signed by the printer Paul Kavanagh and publisher / papermaker Ian O'Casey. Folio, 116pp, 36 x 29cm. Finely bound by Joëlle Bocel with onlaid strips of turquoise goatskin with abstract black hot-stamped design applied and embossed from a zinc plate with a pattern of lines reminiscent of the paper makers mould, details dyed in black with Chinese ink, spine lettered in silver, binders stamp to tail of lower turn-in Japanese tissue endpapers, turquoise goatskin and black paper chemise, goatskin edged black cloth slipcase lined with marbled paper. Kilmurry, Ashling Press, 1976.

£3,500.00

Fine.

A stunning binding by Joëlle Bocel, inspired by the wire grid of a paper maker’s mould.

‘Since it is a book on paper technology, It seemed natural to me to evoke the weft of the sieve, to resume its lines by embossing and thus echo one of the papermaker’s main tools. In terms of aesthetics, I will always opt for the simplest, which, in my opinion, is closest to elegance, to what I consider beautiful. A shade of blue for the doublures, a sober and clean interior that lightens the entire binding and highlights the unique decor, that of the cover’ (Joëlle Bocel).

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252260

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