Book design
“It is all a delightfully imaginative jeu d’esprit, and the catalogue itself is a handsome piece of bookmaking.”
— Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
(review of Imaginary Books)
“At the outset let me say how attractive a book this is… indeed, a pleasure to handle.”
— B. J. McMullin, Script & Print, (review of
Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press)
Book design (cover and text) has been an area of special interest for me for a long time, beginning with annual reports and corporate and nonprofit publications.
I have designed many books for Oak Knoll Books and Press (one co-published with the British Library), as well as their anitquarian and publishing catalogues. From 2015-2020 I was Managing Editor of the Press.
Recent book designs…
Cover Stories describes designs, techniques, and materials in more than a hundred of Jamie Kamph’s bookbindings. The bindings range widely in style and content, some configured in pictorial schemes composed of color onlays, some gold-tooled in the grand tradition, some decorated sparingly with florial motifs or an abstract pattern.
The book will accompany an exhibition of Jamie’s bindings at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, scheduled for 2028.
Cover Stories is available from Oak Knoll Books & Press. To see the listing and order a copy, click HERE.
Book/catalog and poster designs for “Imaginary Books,” an exhibition at the Grolier Club (2024) and the Book Club of California (2025).
The book is available from Oak Knoll Books & Press. Click on the book or click HERE to see the listing.
To see information about the Grolier Club exhibition, including videos of presentations by the author, click on the poster or HERE.
Click on an image to see a listing.
Wrap-around cover designs
Interior text pages
