JAMES REID-CUNNINGHAM
BOOKBINDING & CONSERVATION LLC
Artist’s book: Gestures, 2000.
The book is composed of approximately 200 black ink drawings executed Nideggan paper. The drawings are potential patterns for gold tooling on leather bindings.
The sections were sewn packed double-flexible on linen cords.
The boards were beveled and then covered in black goatskin.
There are black goatskin edge-to-edge doublures.
There are inset panels of abalone shell surrounded with gilt lines.