Kate Holland, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK
Doors of Perception, 1954
Aldous Huxley (first edition)
This book ticks many boxes: it is unique and it combines the work of a famous author with the work of a fine binder. It has a real wow factor! Photographs have been printed in black on to alum tawed calf (know for its archival properties) and overlaid with sunken onlays of gold and orange neon leather.
The endpapers are of photographs printed on to watercolour paper, with watercolour wash laminated with Japanese tissue. All edges are gilt with neon splatter. It has hand-sewn silk headbands and comes in a custom-made drop-back box.
185 x 120mm, 64 pages, unique binding 2015.
£2,200 (plus P&P and insurance)
Venice (Whittington Press, 2016)
A unique binding by Kate Holland completed in 2022 of one set of 10 unbound copies from the edition of 285 copies of the Whittington Press’s extraordinary volume, itself a wonderful collaboration between the artist John Craig and the press that explores and captures the alleys and hidden places of Venice, a city Craig clearly knows and loves deeply.
80 wood engravings printed on Zerkall mould-made paper with several linocuts tipped in and coloured. Text set in Arrighi (originating in Renaissance Italy).
The binding of hand dyed fair calfskin with backpared onlay of reverse goatskin and moongold with marbled endpapers. View of Venice based on a painting by Karl Heilmayer.
A sumptuous volume combining the best of British printing, printmaking and bookbinding.
33 x 24.5 cms
£4,500 (plus P&P and insurance)