By Dom Roger Hudleston (Transl.) Illustrated by Paolo Molnar Published by The Limited Editions Club, Printed in Italy (1930). Bound by Glenn Malkin (2024)
The book is bound in full natural goat and airbrushed with acrylic inks and with back-pared onlaid leather lines and detail. The top edge is polished and decorated with sprinkled gold leaf, with other edges left untrimmed. Hand-sewn silk end bands. Inside there are full leather doublures decorated with leather onlays, and suede endpapers. Presented in a bespoke suede-lined wooden box with leather panel to the lid.
The design is an abstracted representation of the Umbrian agricultural countryside and the hilltop Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.
Exhibited at Designer Bookbinders ‘Unique’ Exhibition, London, 2024
