Spring 2011 Supplying Calligraphers, Lettering Artists, Illuminators
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spring 2011 Supplying calligraphers, lettering artists, illuminators, bookbinders and papercraft enthusiasts worldwide with books, tools, and materials since 1981. 61 5 64 50 61 61 ORDER NOW! toll free: 800-369-9598 v web: www.JohnNealBooks.com Julie Eastman. B&L 8.2 “...an informative, engaging, Bill Waddington. B&L 8.2 and valued resource.” Need something new to inspire you? –Ed Hutchins Subscribe to Bound & Lettered and have each issue – filled with practical information on artists’ books, bookbinding, calligraphy and papercraft – delivered to your mailbox. Bound & Lettered features: how-to articles with helpful step-by-step instructions and illustrations, artist galleries featuring the works of accomplished calligraphers & book artists, useful articles on tools & materials, and book & exhibit reviews. You will find each issue filled with wonderful ideas and projects. Subscribe today! Annie Cicale. B&L 8.3 Every issue of Bound & Lettered has articles full of practical information for calligraphers, bookbinders and book artists. Fran Watson. B&L 8.3 Founded by Shereen LaPlantz, Bound & Lettered is a quarterly magazine of calligraphy, bookbinding and papercraft. Published by John Neal, Bookseller. Now with 18 color pages! Subscription prices: USA Canada Others Four issues (1 year) $26 $34 USD $40 USD Eight issues (2 years) $47 $63 USD $75 USD 12 issues (3 years) $63 $87 USD $105 USD mail to: Bound & Lettered, 1833 Spring Garden St., First Floor, Sue Bleiwess. B&L 8.2 Greensboro, NC 27403 b SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT WWW .JOHNNEALBOOKS .COM B3310. Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss. 2009. 56pp. 9"x11.5". Hardcover $19.99 From an alligator made of aaa’s to a zebra made of zzz’s, the alphabeasties in this book are ingeniously built out of multiple typefaces. Adults and children will be engaged and delighted with the flaps, which lift to reveal “beasties” for each letter of the alphabet. B3320. Playing with Books: B3085. The Bookbinding Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Handbook: Simple Techniques Reimagining the Book by Jason and Step-by-Step Projects by Sue Thompson. 2010. 154pp. 8"x10". Doggett. 2008. 192pp. 6.5"x8". Paper $24.95. Hardcover, spiral $12.99 JNB Price $19.95 An inexpensive, but good, first Presents step-by book. Contains clear step-by-step step projects that de- instructions for making a construct and rebuild books and their parts into variety of books, pamphlets, unique objects. The book combines bookbinding, albums, journals, and diaries. woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy B3166. Painted Paper: Tech- dose of experimentation and fun. Includes a gallery niques & Projects for Handmade of thought-provoking and beautiful works. Books & Cards by Alisa Golden. 2008. 176pp. 8.5" x 10". Paper B3156. Book + Art: Handcraft- $17.95. JNB Price $16.95 ing Artists’ Books by Dorothy Presents techniques for decorat- Simpson Krause. 2009. 144pp. ing paper with water-based media 8.25"x10.75". Paper $24.99. – primarily acrylic inks and gesso JNB Price $22.95 – and book projects to use the papers. Includes Rather than a book solely on bind- washes, dropper outlines, brush-handle painting, ing techniques, this book’s premise masking borders, repeating patterns and free-form is to view the book as a form of cre- designs. ative expression. The book presents B3307. True Nature: An Illus- a wide range of binding techniques & structure styles and trated Journal of the Four Seasons methods to transform or create the pages through mixed in Solitude by Barbara Bash. 2004. media/collage, printmaking and more. Step-by-step pho- tos & complete instructions for each binding technique 144pp. 7.75"x10". Hardcover and mixed media application are provided. Krause is a $24.95. Sale $9.95 book artist, collage-maker and printmaker. Calligrapher Barbara Bash has created this lovely B3323. Constructing and Cover- nature journal which combines a handwritten text ing Boxes: A Beginner’s Guide with delightful watercolors. She caringly records and by Tom & Cindy Hollander. 2009. reflects on her encounters with animals and plants 64pp. 8.5"x11". Paper $14.95 during solitary walks. It makes a wonderful gift. If you want to make boxes, you need to buy B3356. Bookbinding: this book. It is a treasure. Tom A Step-by-Step Guide by and Cindy present very thorough Kathy Abbott. 2010. 160pp. instruction for only two box projects: a hinged box and a 10.2"x8.5". Paper $29.95 clamshell box. Each stage of the box is broken down into A practical book detailed steps, each illustrated with a good color photo. full of step-by- (There are over 230 photos in the book.) Using the book step instructions and is similar to having a master box maker demonstrating photographs. Topics include: the construction for you – and also showing you all the single-section bindings small, but important techniques that are so important (paperback and hardback); multi-section bindings in a well-crafted box. (full cloth case, photograph album, quarter leather binding with paper or cloth-covered sides, and B3346. Marking Time: wrap-around structure); containers (phase box, Guild of Bookworkers Ex- slipcase and portfolio case). hibit Catalog (2009-2010). 64pp. 8.5"x11". Paper $35.00 Wonderfully EllenWiener presents the 50 For more books, tools books and 50 binders of this traveling exhibition. The & materials visit entries include artists’ books, fine printing and designer bindings. Each entry has a large photo and a smaller www.johnnealbooks.com detail, plus a discussion of the work by the binder and a brief bio. TOLL FREE : 800-369-9598 v WEB : www.JOHNNEALBOOKS .com ❧ 3 b SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT WWW .JOHNNEALBOOKS .COM B3307. True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of the Four Seasons in Solitude by Barbara Bash. 2004. 144pp. 7.75"x10". Hardcover $24.95. Sale $9.95 Calligrapher Barbara Bash has created this lovely nature journal which combines a handwritten text with delightful watercolors. She caringly records and reflects on her encounters with animals and plants during solitary walks. It makes a wonderful gift. B3167. Fine Bookbinding: A Bookbinding and Conservation: A Technical Guide by Jen Lindsay. Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft 2009. 192pp. 9"x9-7/8". by Don Etherington. 2010. 180pp. Paper $59.95 8.5"x11". B3229. Hardcover $49.95. A comprehensive manual that JNB Price $44.95 guides you through each stage of B3230. Unbound making a book bound in leather. Signatures $24.95 Explains each stage in the binding This autobiography takes you through his lifelong process, followed by instructions with photographs or journey of bookbinding and conservation, including diagrams of how to do it. Jen Lindsay is a British his teaching and his journey from Europe to the U.S., binder and has taught at Roehampton Institute. where he became Training Officer and Assistant Res- toration Officer at the Library of Congress in 1970. Includes his generous contribution to the conserva- tion effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood. Features a gallery of Etherington’s fine bindings. B3232. Leather Books: An Illustrated Handbook by Karli Frigge. 1997. 90pp. 5.5"x 9.75". Edition of 370 copies. Paper $58.00. JNB Price $30.00 This manual presents instruction and drawings for two methods of binding. In each, the signatures are sewn over leather strips and then pulled through the boards. Parts of the leather thongs are visible with each binding. 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