Journals

William Morris Windrush Journal • FLEXIBOUND This Windrush pattern comes from a pencil and watercolor sketch that William Morris worked on in 1881-1883. Designed for block-printed cotton, Windrush highlights the...

Poetry in Bloom • NEW ROMANTICS The design reproduced on this cover centers around a plant surrounded by other richly hued flowers, foliage, and butterflies. The binding was used for...

Frederick Douglass • EMBELLISHED MANUSCRIPTS Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became a leading abolitionist and social reformer. When too ill to continue his speaking engagements, he wrote letters...

Evangeline • CARTA CONDE The Musée Condé is home to over 1500 manuscripts, including Eusebius' Evangelica Praeparatione. What makes the 1540s edition so special is that it is the "editio...

Turquoise Chronicles • INSPIRED BY ANTIQUITY his cover is based on the binding for a book titled Chroniques, published by Salel Binder in Paris in 1514. The exuberance of the...

Aubergine • SILVER FILIGREE "Filigree" is the delicate metalwork technique reproduced on this cover. With this design originating on a German hymnal binding from the early 1800s, the antique silver...

Olive Fairy • HARDCOVER JOURNAL This captivating image comes from the first edition of Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by Lang, under...

Flemish Rose • HARDCOVER JOURNAL Before Dutch still life painting developed, artists, illuminated handwritten manuscripts to add emotional power to a written work. A celebrated practitioner of this style was...

Ventaglio Rosso • FLEXI JOURNAL The Ventaglio Rosso softcover notebook displays a quartered rose window surrounded by a filigree fan of Eastern influence. This Flexi book reproduces gilt-work melting over...

Zahra • ARABIC ARTISTRYThis Arabic cover design dates to the 17th century, when luxurious Arabic court life helped to inspire a supremely refined design aesthetic. The original binding is emblematic...

Nikola Tesla • A GREAT MIND AT WORKNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, futurist, and engineer. Our cover features a sketch of his turbine research, reproducing a document held...

Nocturnelle • INSPIRED BY ANTIQUITYNowhere is the heft and glory of history more palpable than in the book arts. The 19th century brought several innovations, both functional and aesthetic, to...

Golden Trefoil • LUXURIOUS JOURNAL This Golden Trefoil design is inspired by a 16th-century French binding that originally housed a printing of the Opera Omnia of Giovanni Pontano. Thought to...

H. G. Wells • A GREAT MIND AT WORK • SPECIAL EDITION 75TH ANNIVERSARY JOURNALH.G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer whose visions for our future have greatly impacted our...

Astronomica • FLEXI ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT JOURNALDiscover the legends of the constellations! This design highlights the craftsmanship involved in creating illuminated books such as De Sideribus Tractatus, a 15th-century manuscript copy...