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1995 RECIPIENT

Louise Genest — Bookbinder

Selected Works - Page 3 of 3

CD0024-3303-0990-060 The Garden and Other Poems, bound 1994
(Author: Andrew Marvell; Artist: Harry Brockway; Publisher: The Folio Society Ltd., 1993)
Non-adhesive, full, partially tanned vellum with exposed sewing; recessed onlays of patinated gold, silver, bronze and copper leaves over cork; dyed and coloured twisted cords laced through the cover to form the ivy
11 cm x 8 cm x 0.9 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CD0024-3303-0990-061 A Lady and Her Books, bound 1994
(Author: Kathryn I. Rickard; Publisher: Edition du Parnasse, Montréal, 1988)
Non-adhesive binding with exposed structure; spine covered with guards in patinated bronze leaf; boards covered with goatskin; tooled onlays of patinated bronze leaf
7.5 cm x 5 cm x 1 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CD0024-3303-0990-062 Two Centuries of Bookbinding, bound 1995
(Author: Margaret Lock, curator; Publisher: Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists' Guild, 1991)
Full cowhide binding with exposed sewing; sculptured boards, onlays of patinated copper leaves; cords coloured and individually laced through the cover
23.3 cm x 15.5 cm x 2 cm
Image used with permission of the artist
Archives - Box 608, F8

CMC 95-58 - CD97-316-059 The Outside-inside Book, bound 1982
Box: unfinished sewn manuscript; Book: Ethiopian binding with four covers in various leathers with inlays, onlays and blind and gold tooling
Box: 24 cm x 16.5 cm x 4.5 cm
Book: 14.7 cm x 10 cm x 3.3 cm
CMC 95-58 (Bronfman)



Louise Genest