Bexx Caswell

Bookbinding and Conservation Portfolio

FINE BINDINGS

Leaves of Grass: Selected Poetry and Prose, Walt Whitman; with illustrations by Jim Spanfeller.

Hallmark, 1969.

Rubow style millimeter binding with black Harmatan goatskin at the head and tail, rolled leather endbands,  handmade paste paper, black Fabriano Ingres endsheets.

The paste paper was created especially for this binding, with the intent of capturing the feel of the book’s illustrations without mimicking them.