The Fifth Triennial Helen Warren DeGolyer Exhibition and Bookbinding Competition 5 June 2009 through 24 July 2009
Bridwell Library •
Perkins School of Theology •
Southern Methodist University
Gabrielle Fox received a diploma in Conservation and Fine Binding from the Guildford College of
Technology, where her binding instructors included Maureen Duke, Daphne Beaumont-Wright, and Tony Miles.
The Brazos River flows south-southeast as shown in the design. The head of the
text will be colored and then gilded with various colors of gold and palladium to shimmer as
light on water. Full goatskin with leather onlays and several colors of gold and palladium
tooling will echo older maps with color and images illustrating the journey. The flyleaves
will consist of a repeated pattern of my own wood engraving, reflecting the shallow spots
Graves describes in the river.
William H. A. Butler. Nothing to Wear. This miniature binding has been sewn on tapes, laced in, with silk endbands. The gilding has been done by
Myles at Marchetti Brothers. The outer and inner boards are covered in full goatskin with leather onlays and
gold, palladium, and colored foil tooling. The flyleaves are Curwen decorated and Twinrocker handmade papers.
A cloth and leather push-out book type box has a stamped leather label. The volume’s Edwardian verse describes
a woman with an overbrimming wardrobe, but still with “nothing to wear.” The design shows the woman in her
dressing gown, her arms up in despair, while the leather doublures illustrate various pieces of clothing thrown
in the air.
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