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Brockman (Stuart, binder).- Times Atlas of the World (The), reprint, colour maps and illustrations, bookplate of Lord Wardington at rear, bound in dark red goatskin, by Stuart Brockman, covers with inlaid strapwork design in black and green goatskin and tooled in gilt and blind, small gilt crest in corners, spine titled in gilt with crests and five raised bands, green and yellow endbands, g.e., binder's ticket dated 1996 to top corner of front free endpaper, 4to (c.310 x 225mm.), 1993. ⁂ From the celebrated Wardington collection of atlases, which contained many designer bindings commissioned by Lord Wardington, and acquired by Anthony Dowd in a raffle in aid of the Conservative Party. Stuart Brockman (b.1972) is the son of the bookbinder James Brockman by whom he was trained. Elected as a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2004 he has taught workshops and lectured around the world, and now works alongside his father in Oxfordshire. His bindings are held by the British Library and several private collections, and he has won numerous prizes including the 2004 National Library of Scotland Elizabeth Soutar bookbinding competition.