This black calfskin binding shows a part of Saturn made out of bronze and red-gold pigment, with white gold, holographic tooling rings encircling the planet. Kate Holland drew inspiration from Clarke's book itself, which is about a spaceship travelling to Saturn carrying Dr Bowman and the artificially intelligent computer HAL9000. The opening chapter is translated into binary code and printed on black Bible paper. This beautiful piece is part of The British Library collection.

Length 20 cm
Width 2.5 cm
Height 13 cm

This Kate Holland binding is made out of grey dyed calfskin with neon orange leather sunken onlays and gold tooling. The endpapers show an altered close-up image of the red-hot poker plant, with neon highlights. It is a rebinding of a first edition of Huxley’s seminal account of taking the psychoactive drug mescalin, where he recounts his impressions of a red-hot poker plant in his garden while under the influence in a monochrome post-war world.

Length 19.5 cm
Width 2.2 cm
Height 13.5 cm

This printed alum tawd calfskin binding shows an open window with several red-hot poker plants in front of it. Added to this background are circles of sunken onlay spots in neon orange leather and 23k gold tooling. It is a rebinding of a first edition of Huxley’s seminal account of taking the psychoactive drug mescalin, where he recounts his impressions of a red-hot poker plant in his garden while under the influence.

Length 19.5 cm
Width 2.2 cm
Height 13.5 cm

In a nod to Art Nouveau, this cover depicts glossy peacock feathers on black goatskin. Japanese paper inlays with yellow gold and aluminium highlights, gold tooled dots, doublures in distressed aluminium with yellow gold highlights, and silver leather endbands give the book a luxurious finish. This binding is part of the collection of furniture designer John Makepeace.

Length 19.3 cm
Width 3.1 cm
Height 14.1 cm

This binding is in pierced dark green goatskin, with 23k red gold borders, green goatskin doublures with terracotta goatskin onlays, gold tooling, terracotta goatskin joints, dendritic printed paste endpapers, handsewn silk endbands and watercolour and dendritic printed top edges. This is a rebinding of the magnificent Basilisk Press 1974 facsimile of the monumental Kelmscott Chaucer by William Morris, reputed to be the finest example of book design and hand printing ever produced.

Length 45 cm
Width 10 cm
Height 30 cm