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Paperblanks Diary 2020

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Poetry in Bloom

The Poetry in Bloom design is a reproduction of a 1910 bookbinding. This design reproduces the cover of The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems, a collection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written in the wake of his child’s death, Shelley’s title poem describes a flower garden going through seasonal changes.

Unlike most of the Paperblank designs, which emulate the front part of a book cover, this Poetry in Bloom design is a recreation of the original’s front “doublure,” the inside face of the cover board. Protected from wear, this part provides bookbinders with additional room for unleashing their creative skills. Here, the binders of Riviere and Son, a London-based binding house, used leather and gilt to create a naturalistic representation of flowers, leaves and butterflies. The sensitive plant, named after its reflex to fold its leaves when touched or shaken, is the focal point of the design’s composition, just as it is in Shelley’s poem.

This cover is available on a number of Paperblank products including the diaries, softcover flexis, dot-grid planner, address book and hardcover journal.

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2020 Diary (Mini)

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The contents of the diary include a day on a page format (marked with times) with monthly planners, extra note pages and reference pages at the back. There is also a removable mini address book (which is both cute and functional).

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Product Details:

  • Hardcover
  • 368 Pages
  • 80gsm
  • Diary Pages
  • 95mmx140mm
  • Smyth sewn
  • elastic band closure
  • two ribbon page markers

Paperblanks | £16

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