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We have gone back to our publishing roots with our collection of Old Leather Classics, celebrating what it is about Renaissance-style gold tooled bindings that we have always found so captivating: the... Meer

Dante Alighieri composed the Divine Comedy over a period of 12 years, completing it in 1320. He divided the poem into three parts – Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is the first canto from I... Meer

Capturing the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings, this journal cover pays homage to the craft of gold tooling. Handcrafted gold embellishments lent a lightness of design to E... Meer

Charlie Chaplin was an English actor, filmmaker and composer famed for his iconic character “The Tramp.” This journal celebrates Charlie Chaplin, commemorating both the 100th anniversary o... Meer

Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist and “flower child” who created vibrant and moving themes with paint and paper. This Hummingbirds & Flutterbyes cover design, featuring dancing butt... Meer

Our Sakura cover showcases a reproduction of an original piece of “katagami” art. This particular piece is an example of a katagami painting, which would have been cut out and turned into... Meer

Virginia Woolf rejected traditional plots in favour of explorations of the inner lives of her characters. Her stream of consciousness narratives highlighted gender relations and the poetic perspective... Meer

Jules Verne (1828–1905) is the author of some of the world’s most famous books. This Embellished Manuscript in oceanic blue features a page from Verne’s handwritten draft of Twenty T... Meer

Laurel Burch was an American artist with an unmistakable style that was the physical manifestation of her love of life. From her fertile imagination she created vibrantly coloured and exquisitely embe... Meer

Our Brocaded Paper series celebrates a curated set of antique paper samples collected and housed in Germany. This design, Bavarian Wild Flower, showcases the colourful floral motif archetypal of the d... Meer

With a pattern originally crafted from beechwood and dark brown leather, this stylized cover once contained Jeremiah Schweiglinum’s Handbook of the Lord’s Supper. It was produced at the Be... Meer

Our Michiko Miniatures Kikka cover reproduces Michiko Kamee’s “full of chrysanthemum” design originally handpainted with gold overglaze and colour on china by employing Kyo-Satsuma.... Meer

Venice enchants the eye from first light to last gloaming. We have captured some of the splendid palette of the city with this Paperblanks address book cover inspired by a 1600s Italian binding. Our C... Meer

Brilliant fireworks are conjured up by this magnificent pencil case which reproduces the binding La Declamation Theatrale (1766), a didactic poem by Claude J. Dorat. Scorned by critics, Dorat persiste... Meer

The eternal appeal of a floral design is captured in the work of Irish illustrator William Kilburn. The artist behind William Curtis’ book on botany, Flora Londinensis, Kilburn was also a design... Meer

Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist and “flower child” who created brilliantly coloured, vibrant and moving themes with paint and paper, all exquisitely embellished with gold and silver.... Meer

French author and illustrator Benjamin Lacombe lends his unique spirit to our collection with this lively design. His works have been published and translated around the world. In this Madame Butterfl... Meer

Mila Marquis’s ethereal, joyous images are little bliss bombs for the spirit. In the piece recreated for our Summer Butterflies cover, we see her depiction of a lovely young woman dancing with b... Meer

Virginia Woolf carved out new territory for artists, particularly women writers. She wrote with sensitivity and insight about the confusion, mystery and uncertainty of everyday life. Her 1931 novel Th... Meer

Mila Marquis’s ethereal, joyous images are little bliss bombs for the spirit. In the piece recreated for our Spring Rainbow cover, we see her depiction of a young woman dancing on a rainbow in a... Meer