Riley (Dominic).- Miniature Book.- [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Wise Words about Letter Writing, number 92 of 160 copies, tipped-in portrait, 2 postage stamps and folding facsimile, bound in brown goatskin, [by Dominic Riley], covers with 3 vertical strips of black goatskin onlaid with abstract "stamps" in yellow, green and purple and gilt-tooled envelopes across the strips but slightly offset from each other creating movement in the design, between the strips are columns of circles and dots in gilt which are carried over onto the green goatskin doublures, spine onlaid with black goatskin and titled in gilt, purple suede flyleaves and paper endpapers,"marbled" edges painted in yellow, blue & purple, 66 x 52mm., preserved in turquoise suede-lined cloth drop-back box, upper cover tooled with envelope in gilt, black goatskin label to spine, Baltimore, Xavier Press, 1993.

⁂ Dominic Riley trained under Paul Delrue and at the London College of Printing before starting his own bookbinding studio in 1994. He co-founded the bookbinding programme at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 1996 and returns there annually to teach and lecture. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2008 and has won several prizes for his bindings. His work is held by many private and public collections in the UK and America.