Pierre Ouvrard: Master Bookbinder/Maitre Relieur

by Merrill Distad and Jeannine Green

One of Canada's foremost design bookbinders, Pierre Ouvrard has prepared more than five hundred beautiful, unique bindings over his fifty-year career. Design binding is unusual branch of the book arts, blending craftsmanship, artistry, and literary sensitivity. In Ouvrard's hands, the book becomes a work of art as fine as any painting. This volume features more than three hundred of his best creations, including the sumptuous Governor General's Literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888643608
• ISBN13: 9780888643605
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 132 Pages