Inspired by an 1893 binding of The Poems by William Blake, this design features delicate golden wildflowers. Considered one of the greatest Romantic-era geniuses, Blake...
We have gone back to our publishing roots with this Pacific Blue cover, celebrating what it is about Renaissance-style gold tooled bindings that we have...
One of the most celebrated manuscript illumination artists was Joris Hoefnagel. In the 1590s the Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add his illuminations to...
Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist who created brilliantly coloured, vibrant and moving themes with paint and paper, exquisitely embellished with gold and silver. A...
The Duomo di Milano represents the pinnacle of Italian Gothic architecture. The drawing recreated here is part of a series proposed by the architect Paolo...
Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish architect who was known as a leading figure in Modernism. His style is characterized by the depiction of organic forms...
Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist and ",flower child", who created vibrant and moving themes with paint and paper....
Before Dutch still life painting developed, artists illuminated handwritten manuscripts with flora and fauna to add emotional power to a written work. One of the...
In his Spring painting (1894), Lawrence Alma-Tadema represented the Victorian custom of sending children to collect flowers on May Day. By placing the scene in...
Enid Blyton wrote many books and short stories that captured an idyllic childhood full of adventure in the countryside, chief among them the popular The...
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Inspired by an Irish book binding from 1760 that contained The Book of Common Prayer, which was the standard text for use in Anglican church...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Reproduced here is a page from his 1967 novel One Hundred Years of...
Ancient Greek pottery offers a fascinating window into the past of a lost culture. Reproduced here is a mixing vessel made in a Greek colony...
An Era in Jinling by the Qing court artist Feng Ning was inscribed by three Qing emperors, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Xuantong. Depicting the cityscape, social...
Showcasing silk dyed with beni (the pigment extracted from safflower petals) and lacquered in gold, this kimono design dates to the Edo period (1615-1868), when...
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