This publication was unfortunately completed too late to be included in the biography written and published by my sister, Marianne Brandis, Books By Hand: Gerard Brender à Brandis, Wood Engraver and Bookwright (see below).įlowers from Shakespeare.
#Bookwright plus#
The price is $75.00 plus postage where applicable. It measures 6 1/4 " by 9 1/2" and is being issued in an edition of forty signed copies. I have used nine of my end-grain wood engravings combined with my own text which I set by hand in typeface, printed with my 1865 Albion press and bound by me.
#Bookwright free#
It is free of wood pulp and the cover contains fibre from iris plants that I grew in my garden plus a variety of other fibres. Increasing age and deteriorating health have reduced my output in the studio considerably, but I am pleased that this project has been completed to my satisfaction.Īpart from a small insert, the cover and two sheets (eight pages) are all paper which I made a few years ago. $55.00.ĪNNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF A NEW CHAPBOOK (2015) Title quoted from a poem by Robert Herrick for a collection of 8 wood engravings of members of the daffodil family. (2011) A memoir dictated to the artist by his pet guinea pig. (2009) The artist’s observations on what happens when land meets water, with 6 wood engravings. (2000) Reflections on what reading means to author Marianne Brandis, with 8 wood engravings. (2012) Text is captions by the artist to 12 engravings of food. (2017) Based on artist's journal entries for several visits to renowned private Ontario garden, with 12 wood engravings. $210.00 Other copies have lino-cut title and inlay of cedar from shingle put on the house for its 150th birthday. Bound in linen, some copies have lino-cut cover and title. 18 wood engravings based on the way the house was at the time of printing. (2016) A brief history of the McDonald-Creasy House in Stratford (built in 1866 and home of the artist) by Marianne Brandis. (2013) A fable about a spirit, by the artist, with 14 wood engravings.
This is the magnum opus of the bookwright's career. Covers in linen homespun, dyed and woven by the artist and decorated with pebbles from the river's bed. The book follows the course of the Grand River from its source at Dundalk to the mouth at Port Maitland on Lake Erie, and includes geology, history of occupation by First Nations, and settlement of Europeans with substantial captions for each of the 40 wood engravings. Cover of home-spun, dyed and linen woven by hand by the artist. (1989) Biography of Canadian sculptor Yosef Drenters by Barbara Smiley with focus on his restoration of the Rock Wood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario in the 1850s as a boys' private school. Bound in bleached linen with lino-cut on the cover.
(1988) Story by Graham Jackson with 13 wood engravings, printed on Basingwerk. Cover in tie-dyed and block printed linen by the artist. (2012) 22 miniature wood engravings and beach debris with brief text by the artist in. Bound in natural linen with inlay on the cover. (2018) A brief history of a Conestogo family and the farm on which they settled in the 1850s, with 15 wood engravings. Hardbound books and chapbooks were also bound by me.įamily Farm. All these books were printed on my 1865 Albion handpress from hand-set foundry type and the blocks I have designed and engraved.
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