The Mother's Birds (B17)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Ivor Robinson
Hildelith Cumming
Hildelith Cumming
Title
The Mother's Birds
Made in
Holton
Date
1977
Description
Book, bound in black leather with gold tooling, black and purple doublures, gilt edge paper, photo-lithographed illustrations. Contained in a box covered in oasis goatskin with cloth sides and felt linings; the title in gold on the spine of the box.
Materials and techniques
Printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper in Jan Van Krimpen hand-set type. The illustrations are photo-lithographed from original charcoal drawings. Text printed on a Victoria platen press. Bound in oasis goatskin with tooling in 22 ct gold leaf. The doublures of charcoal suede, the fly leaves of purple suede.
Dimensions
height (box): 3cm
length (box): 25.2cm
width (box): 24.5cm
height (object): 1.9cm
length (object): 23.5cm
width (object): 23cm
Object number
B17
Category
Maker's statement
I believe that this binding takes its natural place in the development of my work of a linear nature over the last few years. The forms probably exhibit a bird-like quality, not perhaps inappropriate to the book. I have bound a number of Stanbrook Abbey press books and know both the printer, and the author/illustrator of "Mother's Birds" which does not make the task any easier!