Detail View: Rylands Collection: David Esslemont: Thomas Bewick's Birds

Image Number: 
JRL022352tr
Reference Number: 
Dowd 38
Image Title: 
David Esslemont: Thomas Bewick's Birds
Series Title: 
Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bookbindings
Creator: 
Esslemont, David
Creator Role: 
Binder
Date Created: 
1984
Page/Sheet: 
Upper & lower covers and spine
Description: 
Designer binding. Bound by David Esslemont in blue goatskin, diagonal design comosed of a feather motif tooled in three parallel lines, the centre one tooled in gilt between multicoloured leather onlays.
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Bindings
Support: 
Goatskin
Item Height: 
254 mm
Item Width: 
190 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: 
Bewick, Thomas, 'Birds' (Newcastle: David Esslemont, 1984)
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB