Moran, Lansing Simonds.

Lansing Moran was a bookbinder in New York City who served in the 1970s as a director of the Guild of Book Workers. In 1976 she began gathering material for an illustrated book she planned on contemporary hand bookbinding design worldwide. While most of her contacts were in Great Britain and Western Europe, Canada and the United States, she also corresponded with binders or maintained sources of information in Eastern Europe, Asia (particularly Japan), Latin America (particularly Argentina and Brazil), and New Zealand. The reprints and periodical articles she collected, with a few exceptions, date from 1965, with an emphasis on 1975 to 1978. While the projected book was not published, Moran did collect over 1500 color slides of modern binding designs as well as numerous articles and reprints about the work of binders who were active in the 1970s.