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BOOKBINDINGS BY PHILIP SMITH (1928-2018)
Born in 1928, Philip Smith began his career in 1949, graduating from the Royal College of Art in London with First Class Honours in 1954. He beacme an internationally renowned designer bookbinder and book artist, designing and creating intricate and fascinating bindings for well over 50 years. He was awarded gold and silver medals in several international competitions, and in 2000 he was awarded an MBE for services to Art.
Philip invented and pioneered several ground-breaking and influential techniques and structural developments. His work is represented in many private collections and can be seen in several public collections overseas and in the UK, including the V&A National Art Library and the British Library.
Born in 1928, Philip Smith began his career in 1949, graduating from the Royal College of Art in London with First Class Honours in 1954. He beacme an internationally renowned designer bookbinder and book artist, designing and creating intricate and fascinating bindings for well over 50 years. He was awarded gold and silver medals in several international competitions, and in 2000 he was awarded an MBE for services to Art.
Philip invented and pioneered several ground-breaking and influential techniques and structural developments. His work is represented in many private collections and can be seen in several public collections overseas and in the UK, including the V&A National Art Library and the British Library.
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SMITH (PHILIP) MALOUF (DAVID) Remembering Babylon, FIRST EDITION, Chatto & Windus, 1993
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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SMITH (PHILIP)
MALOUF (DAVID) Remembering Babylon, FIRST EDITION, bound by Philip Smith in yellow goatskin, each cover with a triangular panel of maril onlays edged in orange, exposed orange spine with triple green and yellow yokes, central yoke lettered in blind, plum endpapers (signed 'Philip Smith 1993' on paste-downs and at end of Notes), edges painted orange, preliminary blank leaf with tipped-in label 'Booker Prize Finalist 1993 Bound by Philip Smith Fellow of Designer Bookbinders', inscribed 'second version' on verso, printed Artist's Notes tipped-in at rear and copy of original entry form loosely inserted, housed in sewn yellow felt pouch with velcro fasteners, 8vo (235 x 153mm.), Chatto & Windus, 1993
Footnotes
Australian author David Malouf's 1993 novel, about an English boy being raised by aborigines, won the inaugural International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. "Binding designed in Australian national colours. The main feature is the cognate anagram using the author's name and the title. This is the second version of the presentation as a Booker Prize finalist, different to that presentation design; made as back up to cover contingencies... The anagram is a synopsis of the story. Anagram reads: 'Dim brain fall guy even re. Abo mob D.M.'" (notes on entry form).
Exhibited: Bibliothèque Nationale Luxembourg, ARA. IVth International Forum, 15-17 April 1994.