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The design reproduced here is taken from a panelled skirt known as a mamianqun, a garment worn by Han Chinese women in the traditional Hanfu dress style. Hanfu dates back more than three millennia to the Song and Liao dynasties, when it became popular...

The design reproduced here is taken from a panelled skirt known as a mamianqun, a garment worn by Han Chinese women in the traditional Hanfu dress style. Hanfu dates back more than three millennia to the Song and Liao dynasties, when it became popular...

The design reproduced here is taken from a panelled skirt known as a mamianqun, a garment worn by Han Chinese women in the traditional Hanfu dress style. Hanfu dates back more than three millennia to the Song and Liao dynasties, when it became popular...

The design reproduced here is taken from a panelled skirt known as a mamianqun, a garment worn by Han Chinese women in the traditional Hanfu dress style. Hanfu dates back more than three millennia to the Song and Liao dynasties, when it became popular...

Evocative of an age when the heavens were alive with more than satellites, this puzzle design is a romantic's delight. Frederik de Wit's spectacular map of the heavens was published in the late 17th century and depicts the hemispheres with representations of the constellations...

Olena Skytsiuk is one of the foremost practitioners of Petrykivka painting, in which brushes crafted from cat hairs are used to create an effect unlike any other. In each design, small strokes combine to create landscapes and floral scenes. Author: PaperblanksISBN-10: 1439796653ISBN-13: 9781439796658Publisher: PaperblanksLanguage:...

Ancient spiritual practices meet modern digital art in this kaleidoscopic book cover featuring the work of Android Jones. His art asks the viewer to focus on the potential for awakening, the power of the ancient third eye and the early reverberations of the time...

This glorious design comes from Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a world-renowned British bindery best known for their bejewelled cover of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Established in London in 1901, Sangorski & Sutcliffe quickly rose to become one of the 20th century's most important bookbinders. They were...

This Baroque-inspired cover comes from a 1725 binding of The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, a masterpiece of Italian literature. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer and poet who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance humanism. With its scope from humour to tragedy and...

Featuring a German pattern dating to 1568, this design suggests an ornately engraved door or magical gateway. With an emphasis on exuberant gold decoration, the motif is emblematic of the era's artistic expressiveness. Author: PaperblanksISBN-10: 1439796718ISBN-13: 9781439796719Publisher: PaperblanksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2023Format: OtherWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 3.62h x...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

This glorious design comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Crafted in 1901 to house a collection of works entitled H?fiz̤ of Sh?r?z: Selections from His Poems, it features three stunningly bejewelled peacocks, each inlaid in eight different colours and embellished with...

Ancient spiritual practices meet modern digital art in the work of Android Jones. His art asks the viewer to focus on the potential for awakening, the power of the third eye and the early reverberations of the time that lies before us. With colours...

Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is the author's most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the kinds of persuasion enforced on young women. Here we have reproduced a rare surviving...

Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is the author's most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the kinds of persuasion enforced on young women. Here we have reproduced a rare surviving...

Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is the author's most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the kinds of persuasion enforced on young women. Here we have reproduced a rare surviving...

Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist who created brilliantly coloured, vibrant and moving themes. In this design, her original characters, foliage and other details have been adapted by a Japanese artisan to create a new watercolour painting. Author: PaperblanksISBN-10: 1439796637ISBN-13: 9781439796634Publisher: PaperblanksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2023Format:...

Our Kikka journal reproduces Michiko Kamee's "full of chrysanthemum" design originally hand-painted with gold overglaze and colour on china by employing the "Kyo-Satsuma" technique. In this Paperblanks book cover design the viewer can see hints of the kaleidoscope of flowers in bloom, as well...

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter fascinated by Japanese art and the female form. The Kiss (1907-1908) represents the pinnacle of Klimt's "golden phase." Oil and gold leaf combine to create sinuous shapes, and the lustrous palette and intricate patterns make the...

English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Gothic horror novel Frankenstein tells of a scientist who creates a sentient being in a morality-pushing experiment. The story came to life while on a cross-European vacation with friends, touring ancient castles and discussing topics such as the occult....

English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Gothic horror novel, Frankenstein, considered to be one of the first works of science fiction, tells of a scientist who creates a sentient being in a morality-pushing experiment.The story came to life during an 1816 trip that Shelley undertook...

Considered one of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) produced the finest frescoes and many of the most revered sculptures in the world. He was renowned for his fierce solitude, yet was one of the great chroniclers of the human form....

Considered one of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) produced the finest frescoes and many of the most revered sculptures in the world. He was renowned for his fierce solitude, yet was one of the great chroniclers of the human form....

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered one of the masters of the Italian Renaissance. This handwritten letter demonstrates the refinement and passion of one of the greatest artists humanity has produced. And with the Sistine Chapel's The Creation of Adam featured on the back cover,...

Michelangelo Buonarroti's (1475-1564) mind was an incessant battlefield. The opposing forces of religious faith and pagan beauty warred across his consciousness. They also helped spur him to create a pantheon of artistic masterpieces. Considered one of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, over the...

Michelangelo Buonarroti's (1475-1564) mind was an incessant battlefield. The opposing forces of religious faith and pagan beauty warred across his consciousness. They also helped spur him to create a pantheon of artistic masterpieces. Considered one of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, over the...

William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most celebrated practitioners of the Arts and Crafts movement. In creating woven and printed textile designs Morris worked with the ancient technique of hand woodblock printing, finding inspiration in the natural world around him. His evocations of...

Rinpa is a leading historical school of Japanese painting, established in 17th-century Kyoto, whose artists were known for working in a range of formats. This design shows a section of a screen with various types of blooms often believed to follow the ancient Japanese...

These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755), who painted in the Rinpa style (and was reputedly a rōnin!). Rinpa is a leading historical school of Japanese painting, established in 17th-century Kyoto,...

These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755), who painted in the Rinpa style (and was reputedly a rōnin!). Rinpa is a leading historical school of Japanese painting, established in 17th-century Kyoto,...

These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō. Rinpa is a leading historical school of Japanese painting, established in 17th-century Kyoto, whose artists were known for working in a range of formats, notably...

These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755), who painted in the Rinpa style (and was reputedly a rōnin!). Beautiful gold accents make up every intricacy of the leaves and flowers in...

These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755), who painted in the Rinpa style (and was reputedly a rōnin!). Beautiful gold accents make up every intricacy of the leaves and flowers in...

This captivating image comes from Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by the Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the book was one in a...

This captivating image comes from Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by the Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the book was one in a...

This captivating image comes from Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by the Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the book was one in a...

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, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the book was one...

This captivating image comes from a collection of 12 books, known as Lang's Fairy Books (or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colours). Compiled by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the...

This captivating image comes from a collection of 12 books, known as Lang's Fairy Books (or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colours). Compiled by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the...

Reproducing an expensive goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam in 1835 by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb, our Onyx journal celebrates the harmony between art and science. The binding was originally designed to contain a Latin oration on the physiology of plants by the renowned...

Reproducing an expensive goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam in 1835 by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb, our Onyx journal celebrates the harmony between art and science. The binding was originally designed to contain a Latin oration on the physiology of plants by the renowned...

Our Onyx journal reproduces an 1835 goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb. The binding was originally designed to contain a Latin oration on the physiology of plants by the renowned Dutch botanist Willem Hendrik de Vriese. De Vriese, a...

Connect with the ornate Dutch world of yesteryear with this stately gold on black geometric design. Reproducing an expensive goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam in 1835 by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb, our Onyx journal celebrates the harmony between art and science. The binding...

Connect with the ornate Dutch world of yesteryear with this stately gold on black geometric design. Reproducing an expensive goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam in 1835 by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb, our Onyx journal celebrates the harmony between art and science. The binding...

The archetype of the appealing anti-hero is encapsulated in Gil Blas, the star of Alain-Ren? Lesage's 18th-century picaresque novel. Lesage's work was influenced by the story Lazarillo de Tormes, a Spanish novella published anonymously in 1554. The cover of an 1846 double publication of...