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PB MIDI LINED LIONS DEN
This striking Art Deco design comes from the celebrated British bookbinder Sybil Pye (1879–1959). It was crafted to hold a collection of William Wordsworth’s poems illustrated by Pye’s lifelong friend Thomas Sturge Moore. [more info...]
PB MIDI LINED OLD LEATHER FLINT
Capturing the flavour of Renaissance-style bound books, Paperblanks Old Leather Flint journal pays homage to the craft of delicate gold tooling. For this cover design, we have incorporated a textured white design reminiscent of chalk, flint or limestone, adding an edginess to the look of finely wrought leather. [more info...]
PB MIDI LINED PERSN POETRY LAYLA
This design pays tribute to an 18th-century binding that housed the Khamsa, a seminal work by Persian Sunni Muslim poet Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141–1209). His best-known work, the Khamsa, is a series of five long narrative poems. The first of these, Makhzan-ol-Asrâr, was influenced by an early Sufi book of mystical poetry. The four other poems are medieval romances. Nizami’s tragic story of star-cross [more info...]
PB MINI LINED PEACOCK PUNK
Taking their slightly sullen cues from previous artistic movements, the New Romantics of the 1980s brought their hairstyles and attitudes to new prominence. [more info...]
PB MINI LINED PERSN POETRY LAYLA
This design pays tribute to an 18th-century binding that housed the Khamsa, a seminal work by Persian Sunni Muslim poet Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141–1209). The Khamsa is a series of five long narrative poems. His romance story of Layla and Majnun has famously inspired many contemporary artists with its theme of forbidden love. Featuring intricate floral detail, our Layla cover design beautifully mirror [more info...]
PB MINI LINED SAFAVID
PB MINI LINED SAFAVID....The Safavid Dynasty is often considered to represent the Islamic Golden Age, with its artists and creative methods still celebrated today. This Safavid-style design incorporates the symmetry, pentagonal flap closure and filigree designs that are the hallmarks of this binding tradition. [more info...]
PB MINI LINED VAN GOGH IRISES
Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionist painters, though he experienced much turmoil in his personal life. After admitting himself to the Saint-Paul Asylum following a severe mental health crisis, Van Gogh began his recuperation by painting the asylum garden, notably its irises. We are honoured to feature this seminal painting from the J. Paul Getty Museum in our collect [more info...]
PB MINI UNLINED ABC ARTISTRY ZAHRA
Our Arabic Artistry journal cover design dates to the 17th century, when luxurious Arabic court life helped to inspire a supremely refined design aesthetic. The original binding our Zahra book cover reproduces is emblematic of an era when books were major investments, used as valuable donations, treasured gifts to heads of state and status symbols. [more info...]
PB ULT LN POETRY IN BLOOM
The design reproduced on this cover centres around a sensitive plant surrounded by other richly hued flowers, foliage and butterflies. The binding was used for The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and is a celebration of the creative spirit. [more info...]
PB ULTRA LINED ATELIER MIDNIGHT STAR
A brilliant 16th-century Cairo workshop is responsible for this journal cover design. Though the name of that atelier has been lost to history, the detailed pattern and fine materials used show why books from the workshop were so highly prized. Today the original binding can be found in the collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany. [more info...]
PB ULTRA LINED DECO CHANIN SPIRAL
New York City’s Chanin Building was built by Irwin S. Chanin in the late 1920s. Representing some of the finest Art Deco in the city, the lobby was styled around a “City of Opportunity” concept. With a geometric design symbolizing human thought and emotion, a bronze ventilator grille from the building is reproduced for this black and gold journal cover. [more info...]
PB ULTRA LINED FIRE FLOWERS
Brilliant fireworks are conjured up by this magnificent journal cover which reproduces the binding La Déclamation Théâtrale (1766), a didactic poem by Claude J. Dorat. [more info...]
PB ULTRA LINED GOLDEN PATHWAY
With a pattern originally crafted from beechwood and dark brown leather, this stylized journal cover once contained Jeremiah Schweiglinum’s Handbook of the Lord’s Supper. It was produced at the Berg & Neuber printing house in Nuremberg, Germany – especially notable for its female director, Katharina Gerlachin – in 1568. [more info...]
PB ULTRA LINED MAYA BLUE
Combining the Latin words “filum” (thread) and “granum” (seed), silver “filigree” describes an art form that is achieved by first die cutting a base layer of silver sheets and then meticulously etching elaborate grooves into its surface. [more info...]
