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| The Hand Bookbinders of California 29th Annual Members Exhibition November 6 - December 24, 2001 |
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Hikmet Barutcugil |
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The Great Omar
The original Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was lost on the Titanic in 1912. A second copy of the binding took two years of continuous work to complete, using over 1,000 gems and 1500 separate pieces of leather.
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