One of 360 copies on paper made by Magnani of Pescia, this copy out of series and marked ‘not for sale’, with an additonal 160 copies on hand made paper by Amatruda of Alamfi, and a further 5 copies on Japanese Hosho paper. 4to., 216pp. Finely bound by Glenn Bartley in full white goatskin, covers painted with a streak of red from upper to lower cover, upper cover with the form of a face composed of black goatskin inlay with blue gouged lines, a band of gold tooled rectangular forms stretching from upper to lower cover, spine lettered in gilt, blue silk pastedown endpapers with gilt and blue turn-ins, blue reversed calf doublures, handmade paper endleaves in gray-blue, edges painted red, with black cloth drop back box. Alberto Tallone, Alpignano, Italy, 1978.
Fine.
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’ - a striking, unsettling and meticulously executed binding on the Tallone edition of Hamlet by Glen Bartley. He is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and since 2017 has worked at the Royal Bindery in Windsor Castle, going on to serve as Head of the Royal Bindery.
