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 DON TAYLOR - BOOKBINDER     Hand Bookbinding in Toronto, Ontario since 1980

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Design Bindings & Exhibitions


Have a look at some of my design bindings
(click on any of the images to view a larger image)

28dec03 Don's Studio 01 28dec03 Don's Studio 11 28dec03 Don's Studio 14 28dec03 Don's Studio 17 28dec03 Don's Studio 19
28dec03 Don's Studio 23 28dec03 Don's Studio 25 28dec03 Don's Studio 29 28dec03 Don's Studio 31 28dec03 Don's Studio 35
28dec03 Don's Studio 37 28dec03 Don's Studio 40 28dec03 Don's Studio 42 28dec03 Don's Studio 44 28dec03 Don's Studio 45
 

Top Row (from left to right) :

  1.  Cheshire Cat Press  " Alice in Wonderland"  design binding in paper, leather, acrylics,  ink

  2.  Goethe's " Faust" (front cover)  design binding in full goatskin with inlays and tooling.  hand-carved brass clasps

  3.  Goethe's "Faust"  (back cover)

  4.  Aliquando Press  " An Articulation of Time"   design binding in full goatskin, acrylics, gold tooling

  5.  Leopardi's "L'infinito"   design binding in goatskin and decorated paper, shell, blind tooling

 

Middle Row (from left to right):

  6.  Aliquando Press  "Il Giardino d'Amore" design binding in full calf with gold tooling

 *8. Church Street Press  "Home Country" poetry by Al Purdy. limited edition 100 bindings in quarter cloth & custom decorated paper sides 

 *7. St Francis of Assisi.  "Il Cantico delle Creature"  design binding in goatskin and decorated paper with stamping

  9.  "Book of Esther" design binding in full calf with gold tooling and dye.   box

10.  Aliquando Press  Boccaccio's "The Nuns and the Gardener"   design binding in full calf .  ink, and blind tooling

 

Bottom Row (from left to right):

11. "The Nuns and the Gardener"  (see 9)

12. "The Daily Mail Boys Annual 1959" restoration binding with slipcase

13. "Book of Knowledge"  1794  restoration and design binding with chemise and slipcase

14. Pointyhead Press Publications "Hints to Travellers"  (see Pointyhead link) artists book  limited edition of 30.

15. Pointyhead Press Publications  "Castle Matrix: 10 June 2001" (see Pointyhead link) artists book limited edition of 30

 

 

Click below to view the "And Still the Binder" Exhibition Catalogue

 

 

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  Don Taylor - Bookbinder  176 John Street, Toronto, Ontario  M5T 1X5  Phone: 416.591.8801  E-Mail