Restored/Conserved
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Joint 1st PRIZE (The Gwasg Gregynog Prize & John Coleman Trophy)
and joint BEST BINDING BY A PROFESSIONAL BINDER
THE ANTHONY DOWD COLLECTION OF MODERN BINDINGS
Bound by Glenn Bartley - Oxfordshire, UK
Professional
Full dark green goatskin, red and purple goatskin onlays, grey goatskin doublures, Thai paper flyleaves, gilt edges, gold and blind tooling.
Joint 1st PRIZE (The Gwasg Gregynog Prize & John Coleman Trophy)
and joint BEST BINDING BY A PROFESSIONAL BINDER
THE SPECIAL BINDINGS OF GWASG GREGYNOG
Compiled by Anthony Dowd.
Bound by Simon Haigh - Oxford, UK
Professional
Full black goatskin, Japanese wood veneer endpapers, gilt edges, puckered goatskin, calf, levant and Japanese wood veneer paper onlays, blind tooling, sprinkled gold leaf and burnished areas on onlays.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
and BEST BINDING BY A NON-PROFESSIONAL BINDER
BOOKS IN THE BLOOD
Author: Anthony Rota
Bound by Marianne Harwood - London, UK
Non-Professional
Full red goatskin, leather jointed end leaves and leather doublures, gilt edges, gold tooling and lettering.
FINE CUT AWARD FOR FINISHING
BOMMELER EN TIELERWAARD
By FAJ Vermeuller
Bound by Geert Van Daal - Dodewaal, The Netherlands
Professional
Full green goatskin, silk doublures and flyleaves, gilt edges, gold tooled design.
FINE CUT AWARD FOR FINISHING
LOST ON THE TITANIC
by Robert Shepherd
Bound by John Mitchell - Woking, UK
Professional
Full goatskin, gilt edges, hand made endbands, leather doublures with Moiré silk flyleaves. Design applied with goatskin onlays and gold tooling.
HARMATAN LEATHER AWARD FOR FORWARDING
FAHRENHEIT 451
by Ray Bradbury
Bound by Derek Hood - Bath, UK
Professional
Full red goatskin, gilt edges, leather joints and goatskin doublures, goatskin onlays and blind tooling.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
KALEVIPOEG
by Fr R Kreytzwald
Bound by Tiina Piisang - Tallinn, Estonia
Professional
Full marbled calf over sculptured boards, hand made relief figures on spine, Islamic style/Byzantine endbands and marbled calf doublures over relief images. Grey endpapers.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
THE SILK ROAD
by Frances Wood
Bound by Margaret Willmer - London, UK
Non-Professional
Full blue and tan goatskin with onlaid lettering, Japanese paper end leaves.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
EVGENIY ONEGIN
by A E Pushkin
Bound by Yuriy Galkin - Moscow, Russia
Professional
Full dark green goatskin with blind tooling, spine partly overlaid with terracotta onlays over raised letters. Acrylic coloured edges. Heat sensitive Khepera paper with blind tooling. Recessed leather onlays on doublures including author’s name and title.
