A celebration of bookbinding featuring entries from the international
Designer Bookbinders competition.
Plants and gardens play a central role in life on Earth. They have
provided food, clothing, shelter, medicines, employment, leisure, and
enjoyment throughout history. They also have many symbolic uses in art,
mythology, and literature, making plants and gardens the perfect theme
for the Designer Bookbinders' fourth international competition held at
the Bodleian Library in 2022. The chosen theme also celebrates four
hundred years since the founding of the Oxford Botanic Garden.
This beautiful catalog features richly illustrated texts and finely
printed volumes that are bound with skill and creativity using varied
materials by binders from all over the world. The fourth volume in the
series, which features catalogs from the 2009, 2013, and 2017
competitions, A Gathering of Leaves is a celebration of the stunningly
inventive competition entries and winning bindings.