Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

booksnbuildings:

A French royal bookbinding (for queen Maria de’ Medici), embroidered silk, 1629

Currently at the Chateau de Chantilly

(Cover used for collected volume of Pearson’s Magazine 1899)

William Morris (1834–1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and utopian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his career. He devoted much of the latter half of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style print books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

(Source: nordolan)

aperfectcommotion:

Islamic horoscope

(Source: fernsandmoss, via mythologyofblue)

aubade:

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron 1887 (via crackdog)

What a beautiful old book, I wonder what’s inside?

[EDIT:] Apparently it is an old photo album from the very late 1800s/early 1900s.

(Source: forevergnarly)

oddresonance:

Silver on black leather (anon.) ‘New Testament’ 1710

(via hypotheticalisms)

reaktorplayer:

via www.designboom.com