Aphrodisiac: Erotic Drawings by John Boyce for Selected Passages from the Works of Anais Nin
New York: Crown Publishers, 1976. Full Leather. Fine binding. Item #9380
Octavo. [160] pp., illus. First edition, first printing, thus. Full bound in burgundy morocco with blind-tooling, sanding, and dyed and acrylic-toned goat onlays. Top edge gilt with sgraffito designed. Hand-woven silk endbands. Housed in clamshell box.
In this binding, Brenda Gallagher has drawn from Boyce's erotic illustrations to render a beautifully blind-tooled drawing spanning both covers. Stamped onlays and sanded details bring the binding into perfect union with the text. Gallagher has subtly titled the cover by embedding both the author's name and title within the blind tooling. A remarkably designed and excellently executed binding, capturing the spirit of Nin's prose and quite directly, the character of Boyce's drawings. Gallagher is a design bookbinder and a graduate of the American Academy of Bookbinding.
Price: $4,000.00