Notebook: Leather and Marbled Paper

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Giulio Giannini e Figlio have been binding books and marbling paper in Florence since 1856, still run today by the same family six generations on. This is a half-bound book - the o ld bookbinder's construction, leather at the spine and corners where a book takes its wear, marbled paper across the boards where it does not. They make both parts themselves: the leather worked in Florence, the marbled paper drawn by hand off the bath. The cover is two of the bottega's crafts on a single object. Inside, the pages are ivory and hand-sewn - gathered into sections and stitched, the way books were bound before glue. It opens flat, and it will stay sound for a very long time. Available only in marbled-paper variations, no two the same. Exclusive to Australia. Show more