Moby Dick or the Whale

A fine binding for Lithuanian edition of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or the Whale (Vilnius: Vaga, 1987).

Navy blue and grey shagreen leather with inlays of fish skin elements.

Gilded by Georgina Aspa Vendrell & Ieva Rusteikaitė

The books was a part of the exhibition Reliures océanes / Ocean bindings organized by ARA France in Paris on 2016 and appears in the catalogue of the exhibition. In 2020 it participated in the exhibition BOOKbinders BOOKs organized by the Bookbinders Guild of Vilnius.