BINDING
DOC/UNDOC
For DOC/UNDOC, Booklab II is teaming up with Moving Parts Press to create the book portion of a grandiose collaboration of artists who have a created a work that stimulates all of the senses. This book is our current project which, upon completion, will be an edition of sixty-five signed and numbered accordion-fold books containing […]
Loom
Booklab II is happy to have collaborated with Nawakum Press again to produce Loom, a collection of wood engravings by Richard Wagener along side poems by Alan Loney. Loom comes in two variants; standard and deluxe. The book is hand sewn on linen tapes laced into a limp paper case of PC4 Blue handmade by […]
Outside
We are happy to collaborate with Nawakum Press to produce Outside, a book of short stories by Barry Lopez alongside engravings by Barry Moser. There are 15 copies of the deluxe variation for Outside which are bound in a millimeter style binding, with spine and fore edges of black Levant goatskin. The case is covered […]
BookLab II binds Russell Marets Specimens
We are proud to have been selected as the binder for Russell Maret’s publication, Specimens of Diverse Characters. Both the standard and the deluxe varients are bound in a modified Bradel binding. The standard has a silver stamped scarlet leather spine with paper covered boards printed Russell’s foundry Lisbon Ornaments. The deluxe binding has a […]
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California In Relief
California in Relief Thirty Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener The Book Club of California, San Francisco, California, 2009 Book bound at BookLab II, San Marcos, Texas 32.1 cm x 19.7 cm x 1.4 cm Edition of 300 copies; this one out of series. Designed and letterpress printed by Peter Rutledge Koch using photopolymer plates on […]
Adventures of a Marbler
Adventures of a Marbler Volume Two of Marbling at the Heyeck Press Robin Heyeck The Heyeck Press, Woodside, California, 2006 Bound at BookLab II, San Marcos, Texas 27.3 cm x 19.7 cm x 2.2 cm Number 26 of an edition of 150 copies. Designed, hand set, and letterpress printed by Robin Heyeck on Buckskin paper […]
Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony
Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony Poems by Yves Peyré English translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson Drawings by Ray Rice Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, California, 2005 Bound at BookLab II, San Marcos, Texas 37.7 cm x 25.6 cm x 1.9 cm Number 47 of 96 copies: Numbers 1-12 hand painted by artist; numbers 13-96 […]
The Firebird’s Nest
The Firebird’s Nest Salman Rushdie Linocuts by Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya Rainmaker Editions, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, 2004 Bound at BookLab II, San Marcos, Texas 30 cm x 18.7 cm x 1.4 cm Edition of 26 lettered copies, 99 numbered copies, and 15 hors de commerce, of which this is copy HC2. Designed by […]
