JAMES REID-CUNNINGHAM
BOOKBINDING & CONSERVATION LLC
Artistic bookbinding on: Frank Wedekind, The LuLu Plays, Arion Press, San Francisco, 2015. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Bound in 2019.
THIS BINDING IS NOT FOR SALE.
The flyleaves are White Tyvek™.
The edges of the odd numbered sections were colored with Higgins Eternal Black Ink; the edges of the even numbered sections and the white Tyvek™ flyleaves were left undecorated.
The sections were sewn individually to the inner white leather backplate using 18/3 linen thread in a pamphlet stitch.
The double boards were covered with white and black goatskin, and decorated with onlaid goatskin and kidskin.
The boards are adhered using a hinge of airplane cotton colored with acrylic pigment.
The binding was titled in gold on the spine.
THIS BINDING IS NOT FOR SALE.