Description
This pamphlet has a white hammered card cover, hand-dyed linen thread, and 52 parchment effect pages. It has been hand sewn, cut flush and the front cover corners trimmed with a decorative corner cutter. The cover image features a border image from a Victorian copy of Shakespeare’s works and the quotes are taken from the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s plays, printed 1623. There are 5 quotes to choose from.
Notebook is roughly 200 mm x 140 mm x 3 mm in size.
The choice of quotes is as follows:
Much Ado About Nothing – MESSENGER : I see (Lady) the Gentleman is not in your bookes. BEATRICE : No, and he were, I would burne my study.
Romeo and Juliet – IULIET : Was euer booke containing such vile matter So fairely bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous Pallace.
As You Like It – IACQUES : I pray you marre no more trees with Writing Loue-songs in their barkes. ORLANDO : I pray you marre no more of my verses with reading them ill-fauouredly.
Macbeth – LADY MACBETH : Your face, my Thane, is as a Booke where men May reade strange matters, to beguile the time.
Henry the Sixth – YORKE: Ile note you in my Booke of Memorie To scourge you for this apprehension Looke to it well, and say you are well warn’d.
