McEwan (Tom, binder).- Shakespeare (William) Timon of Athens, edited by Herbert Farjeon, limited edition designed by Bruce Rogers, wood-engraved plates by George Buday, bound in goatskin painted in blue & black, by Tom McEwan, with small onlaid patches of pared green goatskin and gold leaf and thin jagged lines in gilt, small panel of beige goatskin with image of soldiers inlaid across spine and part of covers, similar goatskin doublures and paper flyleaves with images taken from the wood-engravings, edges painted in gold, blue & black and scored, preserved in suede-lined black cloth drop-back box, paper label to spine, folio (c.315 x 215mm.), New York, Limited Editions Club, 1940.

⁂ Commissioned from the binder in 2012. Having studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art and worked as a diesinker and toolmaker, Tom McEwan trained in bookbinding at Glasgow College of Building and Printing. He has won several prizes in the Society of Bookbinders and Designer Bookbinders competitions and was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2014. His work is held in both public and private collections in the UK, Europe and America.