The Shipwreck, A Poem. In Three Cantos by William Falconer

6” W x 9 1/4” H x 1 1/2” D

Currently on tour for the OpenSet Exhibition.

Design binding. Bound in red goatskin with a darker red onlay of a ship. Leather hinges. Sewn endbands. The edge decoration is original from when it was bound in 1811. The onlay was cut out with an xacto, back parred onto the cover leather and then I edged the outline with a fools tool.

The design depicts a ship from the 17th century, but I mirrored the image at the first mast because the story is about the opposing force of nature and man. There is so much trauma in a shipwreck, that I chose to use only red leather to depict the death and disaster of a capsized ship.

Black custom clamshell box.