The visionary world of Nicholas Beckett
A friend kindly pointed out that you can mail order the Cat Party book I contributed to, from Blackwalls for AU $32.95, in the UK in June. It’s just that Microcosm has to charge US$26 in postage which is almost double what this costs.
I will look at local book shops, but I’m not sure they will stock this, but will let you know if I see it anywhere.
This arrived in the post just this week. I have crap in a real book. A real book put together by the great Katie Haegele. A book about cats.
Lots of great writing and pictures from people about their cats.
I’m not expecting anyone down in Australia to buy it. Sadly market forces make the postage prohibitively expensive. I don’t blame them, I blame the world. Oh well.
Other countries I imagine you get a much better deal. Especially the US of course.
But if you do want to spend $50Aud on postage for a book that’s about $30Aud. Here’s the link.
…I finished my books for the Easter show.
Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.
Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.
Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.
…that I could make more of this crap.
…are a million to one. But still they come.
The chances of me finishing binding this edition of War Of The Worlds, is about the same.
Hello again,
this weekend only I have a book that has travelled up to Brisbane as part of a bookbinding show.
See it at
Scrumptious Reads, 92A Arthur Terrace, Red Hill on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November.
I bought text block sheets of the “Bookbinder of Jericho.” The paper wasn’t the best, so I just did a basic case bound. But I made my own cover and endpapers.
I suppose I should read it now.
I bound a book for an exhibition which is the reprinted text of a letter sent by Nicolas Baudin to the New South Wales Govenor saying that the land is actually inhabited. But they didn’t listen.
The exhibit us at the Sutton Village Gallery just outside Canberra, before coming to Sydney later in the year.
51 Camp Street, Sutton.
…..as I agreed to enter a book binding thing of binding a text block based on a letter by Nicolas Baudin disputing Captain Cook’s findings of Terra Nullius.
I’m trying some things out as I’ve made my own cords that I want visible on the inside of the book, and parts of the outside. Not sure how I feel about them on the outside yet. Glad I’ve done a dummy run.
Not sure how I feel about the raised thread on the image.
Elizabeth JM Walker my Canadian zine and book collaborating friend, has updated and published the story about her grandmother who was a nurse to POW’s in World War 2. I was lucky to get to illustrate it. It’s a story of the ordinary people who are caught up in the decisions of others. Unfortunately, it is still relevant. We did forget.
You can buy it on Amazon around the world. This link is for Australia. HERE
Link for Amazon.com, HERE
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