MARK COCKRAM

Elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2001 and Member of The Society of Designer Craftsmen in 2008.
Mark studied art and design at Lincolnshire College of Art, bookbinding at Guildford College of Technology (Diploma in Fine Bookbinding & Conservation), Japanese bookbinding and related subjects at 'Studio Livre' Tokyo and London College of Printing (B A (Hons) Book Arts and Crafts).

He opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and Studio Five, London in 2003. He works in fine contemporary bookbinding, book arts, printing and box art, teaching various aspects of bookbinding / book arts in Studio Five, the UK, France, USA, India and Japan.

Mark's work is represented in public and private collections around the world.

www.markcockrambooks.co.uk
www.studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com

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Duplicity, Coleridge and
a Cup of Tea

A complete book. Full leather binding with hand-printed inlays to front board, spine and backboard. Housed in a wall-hanging cabinet with roses.

Gustav Kilmt and the
World in Female Form


Full leather binding with multiple leather inlays with worked 24 carat double gold, red Japanese lacquer (in the Rimpa style). Hand-printed endpapers with leather joint to full lacquered doublure.