The Word Was Sung/Lauldad Sona.

Tallinn: published for the Estonian Designer Bookbinders by Trukikoda Folger Art , 2008. Pp. 189. One of 300 copies. Specially bound by Hannah Brown in 2010 (with binder’s label on the lower pastedown) in full black morocco with an embroidered map of Estonia over the entire binding and guitar strings to resemble music staves are laced onto front and lower cover linked with a brass clasp, also over the whole binding are onlays of red, yellow and turquoise morocco circles which appear again on the endpapers as paper circles, music staves tooled in blind on the front pastedown, the second preliminary black leaves have circles cut in them through which a third yellow preliminary leaf glows, housed in a black and yellow felt lined black cloth box with drop lid, with a yellow paper printed label stitched around the edges and more red, turquoiise and yellow paper circles covering the lid. In excellent condition.||Printed in both Estonian and English, transcribed using recordings and notes by Urve Lippus.
Hannah Brown is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and a highly respected and collected British bookbinder who uses a variety of materials in exciting ways often incorporating metalwork, textiles, embroidery, printmaking and woodwork. She pays detailed attention to all aspects of her bindings and the boxes always become part of the whole. Every piece of work from her is exciting, imaginative and exquisitely rendered.|