Smith (Sally Lou, binder).- Cleverdon (Douglas) The Engravings of David Jones: A Survey, number 206 of 260 copies on Arches, from an edition limited to 371, mounted portrait frontispiece, numerous plates, the majority printed from the original blocks, bound in black goatskin, by Sally Lou Smith, with design of a tree with bare branches of tooled lines in gilt & blind and onlaid scrunched black goatskin trunk (smaller on lower cover), the trees partly obscured by a vertical "window" of grey goatskin inlaid with thick lines made up of thin parallel strips of various green, blue & grey goatskin overlaid with tracery of thicker dark grey goatskin branches, titled in gilt across spine, black goatskin doublures with vertical strip of grey goatskin inlaid with dark grey branches reflecting those on the covers, lime green and grey Japanese paper endleaves, t.e.g., others uncut but gilded, signed ''SLS.'' at foot of rear turn-in, c.325 x 245mm., preserved in black goatskin-backed black cloth felt-lined drop-back box, spine titled in gilt, cloth very slightly mottled by damp, with small ownership sticker of Gillian Chipperfield to bottom of box, 4to, printed by the Rampant Lions Press of Cambridge for Clover Hill Editions, 1981.

⁂ A striking designer binding by this renowned binder.

Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007) was a Fellow and President of Designer Bookbinders and a highly regarded teacher of bookbinding. Although born and raised in America she spent most of her career in Britain. A comprehensive survey of her work appeared in The New Bookbinder 21 (2001).

The binding was commissioned by Lady Gillian Chipperfield who was a student of Sally Lou Smith, and has been donated by her to raise funds for Age Exchange, a charity for those with dementia and older, isolated people in Blackheath, London. The charity provides art and music therapy and was a pioneer in using reminiscence as a major help for those with memory loss.