SEVENTH BRIDGE
de (BINDINGS - CRIS CLAIR TAKACS). AHLGREN, CAROL A
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UNCONVENTIONAL BLACK AND KHAKI TIE-DYED CALF BY CRIS CLAIR TAKACS (inscribed in pencil in colophon: "Bound by Cris Clair Takacs 1993"), upper cover with subtle leather-relief archway and blind-stamped falling leaves, smooth spine with two black morocco labels, green handmade paper endleaves. In matching leather-lipped black cloth slipcase. With four full-page woodcuts by Nora Koch. Printed in Hammer Uncial on domestic etching paper. ◆In mint condition.
This is an attractively hand-printed and illustrated remembrance by architectural historian Carol Ahlgren of the hand-crafted bridges she crossed while collecting maple sap with her grandfather; but the big story here is our volume's conspicuous binding of tie-dyed calf fashioned by Ohio artisan Cris Takacs. Takacs began studying bookbinding in 1980, and in 1987 worked with Czech binders Jan and Jarmila Sobota. In an email to a former owner of this volume, Takacs explained she achieved a modelled effect on the upper cover using a leather relief method in which the leather was laid over thin bristol board to produce the design's archway outline. The falling leaves were then tooled in blind, though the leather did not take tooling well, and she had "a devil of a time with the leaves." Takacs is a former chairperson of the Guild of Book Workers, and since her retirement from managing the collections at the International Women's Air and Space Museum in Cleveland, she does binding and conservation under the trade name Books Bound & Repaired. Nora Koch received an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Iowa, and then operated the Gravel Pit Press for a few years after graduate school. She is now a freelance book designer for publishers that include the Minnesota Historical Society Press, University of Wisconsin Press, and Fortress Press. She was a founding member of Minnesota Book Builders..
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- Librería
- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- ST17263-23
- Título
- SEVENTH BRIDGE
- Autor
- (BINDINGS - CRIS CLAIR TAKACS). AHLGREN, CAROL A
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- No. 27 OF 45 COPIES, signed in the colophon by Nora L. Koch
- Editorial
- Gravel Pit Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Iowa City, Iowa
- Fecha de publicación
- 1990
- Páginas
- p.l., 11, [1] pp., [1] leaf.
- Tamaño
- 280 x 180 mm. (11 x 7 1/8").
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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