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THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE A.J. KARTER - DESIGNER BOOKBINDINGS
Lot 184•,AR

CAPON (LESTER)
SPENCER (EDMUND) The Shepheards Calendar Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes, Cresset Press, 1930

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London, Knightsbridge

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CAPON (LESTER)

SPENCER (EDMUND) The Shepheards Calendar Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes, one of 350 copies on handmade paper, with coloured stencil illustrations by John Nash, FULL GREEN MOROCCO DESIGNER BINDING BY LESTER CAPON, the sides in deep ridged wavy bands with decorations (landscape, sky, "weather") in coloured morocco onlays and gilt tooling, spine gilt lettered on 24 small circular coloured morocco onlays, blind-tooled brown morocco pastedowns, folio, Cresset Press, 1930

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Lester Capon started bookbinding in 1975, was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1986, and was their President from 2003-2005 and from 2009-2011.

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