COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL022394tr
Reference Number:
Dowd 11
Image Title:
Daphne Beaumont-Wright: Utopia
Series Title:
Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bookbindings
Creator:
Beaumont-Wright, Daphne
Creator Role:
Binder
Date Created:
1990
Page/Sheet:
Upper & lower covers and spine
Description:
Designer binding. Bound by Daphne Beaumont-Wright in 1990 in crimson goatskin, each board quartered with black goatskin inlays, elaborately tooled in gold with a design of hour-glasses with onlays of fruit & flowers after Tudor embroidery designs.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Technique Used:
Gold tooling
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Goatskin
Item Height:
355 mm
Item Width:
235 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K. (on temporary deposit)
Provenance:
Dowd, Anthony, owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright and IPR restrictions apply
References:
'The Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bindings', compiled by Anthony Dowd (John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2002)
Bibliographic Citation:
More, Sir, Thomas, 'Utopia'; translated by Ralph Robynson (London: Chiswick Press, 1903)
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Daphne Beaumont-Wright: Utopia
