Books end, bookmarks keep going.
A title page, a frontispiece, the gilt on a spine — the parts of a book almost nobody looks at twice. We take them out of early and classic editions and print them at full size, on both faces, so they can be carried.
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The Waste Land
Liveright, New York, 1922
$24.00
Civilization and Its Discontents
Hogarth Press, London, 1930
$24.00
Great Expectations
Hearst's International Library, New York
$24.00
Middlemarch
Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, Cambridge
$24.00
Jane Eyre
Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1847
$24.00
Les Misérables
D. C. Heath and Company, Boston
$24.00
Moby Dick
Macmillan, New York, 1929
$24.00
The collections
Every bookmark belongs to one of four treatments. Each has its own rule for how the two faces relate, which is what lets a Melville title page and a Dracula binding sit in the same line without either looking out of place.
Title Page
The book begins here.
Historic title pages, faithfully adapted from remarkable editions.
4 designs
Frontispiece
The image before the story.
Frontispieces and title pages reunited from the same historic editions.
7 designs
Spine
A library shelf in miniature.
Historic bindings transformed into elegant bookmarks.
5 designs
Inspirations
The edition, and what it made someone draw.
Historic title pages paired with original artwork made for the passage.
5 designs
Boxed sets
All sets →Five bookmarks chosen around a theme rather than a treatment — a binding, a frontispiece, and a commissioned page can sit in the same box if the idea holds. These four lead the line.
Great Novels
Five enduring novels, five remarkable editions, one miniature library of the nineteenth-century canon.
Five bookmarks
Archive Collection
Five beautiful fragments of book history, selected from title pages and frontispieces across the catalog.
Five bookmarks
Gothic Library
Dark bindings, haunted landscapes, and five classics that keep the shadows close.
Five bookmarks
Dark Academia
A moody collection of literary symbols, historic bindings, and unforgettable passages.
Five bookmarks
The craft
The page, not an impression of it
Scanned from clean copies of the original printings, at full size. The blind stamps and foxing are the book's, not a filter.
Two faces, one leaf
Both sides are the product. Where a face is newly drawn rather than reproduced, the page says so — a recreation is never passed off as the edition.
Four stocks, one decision
Woven linen at 13 pt for the look of book paper, matte at 16 pt for photographic plates, pearl at 18 pt for gilt, or a 24 pt triple ply with a green core showing at the edge.