Under Milk Wood. THOMAS (Dylan).

BOUND BY JAMES BROCKMAN

A Play for Voices. Preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones.

First Edition. 8vo. [190 x 124 x 20 mm]. ix, [i], 101 pp]. Bound by James Brockman in 2015 in black goatskin, the covers tooled in three shades of gold and palladium, with blue and green circular onlays and raised toned vellum and red goatskin onlays, extending across the smooth spine, with gilt lettering, black endleaves, gilt edges. Contained in a black cloth drop-over box, along with the original covers and dust-wrapper, lined with velvet, lettered in gilt on goatskin labels. [ebc8159]

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954.

Brockman inserted a descriptive note at the end: "Book collated and taken down; Louise Brockman marbled paper end-papers added; edges gilt; book sewn on four linen tapes; spine glued and shaped; laminated cushion boards laced on; coloured end-bands sewn; spine lined with cotton and paper hollow; covered in full black Harmatan goat-skin; tooled in three shades of gold and palladium leaf using my specially made newly invented chrome faced finishing tools; raised on-lays of toned vellum and sunken Morocco on-lays. Full buckram, velvet lined box (containing original Publisher's binding) with recessed leather titling labeld on spine. May 2015".

James Brockman MBE was born in Oxford in 1946 and served a six year apprenticeship as a finisher at a local bindery, attending day-release courses run by Ivor Robinson. He was assistant to Sydney Cockerell in Cambridge from 1968 until 1973 and then started and managed the Eddington Bindery. He set up his own bindery in 1975 and was appointed Gregynog Arts Fellow by the University of Wales in 1982-83. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1972, and served as President from 1985 to 1987. He remains one of the finest and most innovative binders in the world, now in partnership with his son Stuart.