‘Cerise Surprise’

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Front cover with leather page marker

Front open showing ‘Follot Paris’ endpapers.

Showing front endpapers: Mid century vintage ‘Follot Paris’ French handpainted wallpaper.

Back open showing ‘Dragons and Fire’ endpapers.

Back view of cover and endpapers: rare vintage commissioned ‘Dragons and Fire’ wallpaper.

Open showing first of five vintage wallpaper inserts: Shand Kydd hand painted

Mid century vintage wallpaper insert.

Deckled edge of pages

2nd wallpaper insert: Historic rare ‘Audley End’ Coles’ wallpaper used in restoration of English Heritage ‘Audley End’ dressing room.

Laying on and smoothing out the hand-printed calico against the leather spine and quarter binding.

Back endpapers of ‘Dragons and Fire’ open.

Vintage 1960s ‘Scrolls and flowers’ insert.

Sanderson. Photogravure-printed paper. Perivale. UK. 1960. (V & A: E.446-1988)

The calico at the print stage

•  Hand painted / printed calico bookcloth
• Purple leather quarter binding with raised bands and ‘ears’ to spine
• Vintage endpapers: Front: hand-painted mid-century French ‘Follot Paris’ wallpaper and rare vintage commissioned ‘Dragons and Fire’ wallpaper
• Hand sewn block using red slipping twine
• Purple leather page marker
• 84 A4 pages, different weights, variously textured including Conqueror Blanc Glacier White 100gsm, Zanders Zeta Matt White Linen watermarked 100gsm, Conqueror Laid Grey 100gsm, Conqueror Contour Brilliant White Embossed 100gsm, cream, brown, pistachio with deckled edges top and bottom
• Casebound using top quality millboard
• ‘Surprise’: Five vintage/ historic / rare wallpaper inserts
• Dimensions:
• Weight: 1.4 kg (31bs 2 oz) 
• Height: 33cm (13in)
• Width: 24cm (9.5 in)