The visionary world of Nicholas Beckett
…..as to how we got here.
….on the Island where we belong.
A friend bought me this book while visiting him in Gothenburg. The covers had fallen off, but I noticed that it was missing a few illustrations, so I was wondering if it was worth it. I did an internet search , but couldn’t really find any of the illustrations inside.
Then I thought I could just make up the illustrations myself. I used the interweb to translate so I suppose I did some sort of approximation of what the hell happening.
And that’s what I did.
Restored and reimagined.
Just practicing for when I tackle the fAtlas.
…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.
…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 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.
Painting a one off cover for a book that probably doesn’t deserve it considering the crappy paper it’s printed on.
…..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.
Saint Beckett 