(Designer Binding.) A handmade "Art Binding" by designer boo...

Hammer

£320

(Designer Binding.) A handmade "Art Binding" by designer bookbinder Mark Cockram, 'Reliquary No1', based on a 3rd Century Greek "Coptic" Binding, constructed of wood, copper, brass, lead and gold leaf, being one of his early works, approx size 24 x 12 x 5.5cm. Mark Cockram opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and established 'Studio Five' in Barnes, London in 2003. Fellow of Designer Bookbinders since 2001, and a Brother of the distinguished Art Workers Guild, he has also been commissioned to bind works by Man Booker Prize finalists seven times. His work can be found in the British Library, the Grolier Club and the Victoria & Albert Museum, with some of his works also having been sold at Bonhams.