Paul  Henry  Design

 

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

 

Bound with  extended  heavy Oak boards, hand carved with wheat stalks.

Sewn on linen cords with unbleached linen thread.

Goatskin leather spine.

Marbled endpapers

All pages colour washed in the sheet and reassembled

 

The inspiration for the covers  came from the  idea of the wheatfields and of the corn merchant, Henchard,the chief character in the novel.~Oak is a very traditional  wood for rural tools and is very evocative of the English countryside., likewise the naïve representation of the waving fields of wheat.

The book should be displayed standing fully open with the spine boards forming a continuous flat surface