BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor). Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology, London, 1989, folio, FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU SMITH in contemporary morocco, book box.

BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor).  Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology. London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Folio (363 x 260mm). Coloured maps and illustrations. FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU SMITH [signed "S.L.S."] in contemporary morocco, the covers with rectangular apertures revealing representations of archaeological and geological layers and mineral fragments including gold and tin, the spine lettered in gilt, contained in a padded morocco-backed book box. Provenance: leather bookplates laid down at the end with crowned monogram [?]"H. B." and motto "Pax et Spes", possibly those of Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (1924-2005). Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007) was a distinguished bookbinder, teacher and a Fellow and President of Designer Bookbinders, the pre-eminent British bookbinding society. A full survey of her work appears in The New Bookbinder (No, 21, 2001).