Book Talk :: Beautiful British Books

Date :: Friday, July 22, 2016

Time :: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location :: San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco

Admission :: Free R.S.V.P. here

Master Bookbinders Dominic Riley* and Michael Burke are back at San Francisco Center for the Book for a summer of Master Bookbinding workshops and other bookbinding adventures.

Dominic will tells the story of fine binding and printing in Britain over the last five hundred years. The journey begins with William Caxton, the first printer in England, and works up through the centuries to William Morris and the Kelmscott Chaucer, possibly the last great book of the printed age. He will then show some of the amazing bindings from Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the finest bookbinders in the twentieth century, as well as work from their contemporaries. Dominic will then discuss the new world of Design Binding which emerged after the second world war, as modern design entered this ancient craft, and finish with examples from some of the best artistic bookbinders and private presses working today.

About Dominic Riley

Dominic Riley learned bookbinding at age 16 from Benedictine monks and at the London College of Printing. He spent the last 10 years in San Francisco teaching, lecturing and restoring rare books. He now has a bindery with Michael Burke in England's Lake District and serves as vice chairman of the Society of Bookbinders.