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Louise Genest — Bookbinder

Selected Works - Page 2 of 3

CD0024-3303-0990-057 L'Abbé de l'abbaye (detail), bound 1988
(Author: Jean Genbach; Artist: Alexandre Alexeieff; Publisher: La Tour d'Ivoire, Paris, 1927)
Non-adhesive full calfskin binding with exposed sewing and tongue-in-slot; sculptured boards, blind tooling, onlays in calfskin
24.5 cm x 19.5 cm x 2.5 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CD0024-3303-0990-058 Symposium of Plato (detail), bound 1991
(Author: Plato; Artist: Peter Forster; Publisher: The Libanus Press, 1986)
Non-adhesive binding with exposed sewing and flaps; spine covered with 3 types of Japanese paper; boards in goatskin, sculptured, with sanded leather, blind tooling, recessed onlays in calfskin; flaps held with silver rods
28 cm x 19 cm x 4.5 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CD0024-3303-0990-059 Erte Maquettes, bound 1994
(Publisher: Rebecca Press, 1984)
Full goatskin, laced in binding; gold tooling on the spine; onlays of different patinas of brass and copper leaves on Gampi tissue
6.5 cm x 5 cm x 0.9 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CD9704-3261-2796-079 Lumière noir, bound 1990
(Author: Lucien Scheler; Artist: Julius Baltazar; Publisher: Claude Blaizot, Paris, 1986)
Full calf binding with exposed sewing, raised onlays in Japanese paper, cold template pressing, blind tooling, pressed-in decorated egg shells
25.5 cm x 14.5 cm x 2.3 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8



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