{"id":5130,"date":"2013-04-21T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:24:36","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-derek-hood-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/bookbinder-of-the-month-derek-hood-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Derek Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looks Like Nothing The Shadow Through Air<\/em> was published by Circle Press<\/a> in 1972 in a limited edition of 175. Letterpress printed in Times Roman on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper, the content is previously unpublished poems written by Larry Eigner between 1960-1969.\u00a0The edition includes illustrated relief prints by Ronald King.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Derek Hood<\/a> covered the binding in multiple inlaid leathers including suede, calf and snakeskin.\u00a0The top edge is hand gilt in 24kt gold leaf. Lettering is tooled in white, purple and 24kt leaf. Endpapers are leather jointed with Japanese Kozo paper doublures, which are tooled with purple arcs.<\/p>\n

The cover artwork is a direct response to the poetry of Larry Eigner. The space between the lines, that Eigner creates, say as much to the reader as the words upon them.\u00a0The circular movement reflects Eigner’s constant referral to the moon, the sun and the interplay of light between the two. The gold dots are used to emulate the keys of Eigner’s 1940s Royal manual typewriter, which he used to type all of his poetry on.\u00a0The title is lettered around the book to reflect the informal style in which Eigner laid out his poetry on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks Like Nothing The Shadow Through Air was published by Circle Press in 1972 in a limited edition of 175. Letterpress printed in Times Roman on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper, the content is previously unpublished poems written by Larry Eigner between 1960-1969.\u00a0The edition includes illustrated relief prints by Ronald King.\u00a0 Derek Hood covered the binding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[856,1867,863,846,67,865,75,862,864],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinder-of-the-month","tag-bookbinding","tag-circle-press","tag-derek-hood","tag-fine-binding","tag-larry-eigner","tag-leather","tag-looks-like-nothing-the-shadow-through-air","tag-ron-king"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1kK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5124,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/bookbinder-of-the-month-derek-hood-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5130,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Derek Hood","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Published by Golden Cockerel Press in 1930 in an edition of 500, this copy of The Phaedo of Plato is number 392. 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