{"product_id":"paperblanks-fire-flowers-ultra-hardback-journal-lined-144-pages-pb5409-2","title":"Paperblanks Fire Flowers Ultra Hardback Journal – Lined, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Fire Flowers ultra hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 lined pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant fireworks are conjured up by this magnificent binding that originally covered \u003cem\u003eLa Déclamation Théâtrale\u003c\/em\u003e (1766), a didactic poem by the prolific Claude J. Dorat. Though Dorat’s legacy is not that of a major master, one cannot help but admire his incandescent desire to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA display of brilliant fireworks is called to mind in our Fire Flowers design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cover reproduces a 20th-century binding of Claude J. Dorat’s \u003cem\u003eLa Déclamation Théâtrale,\u003c\/em\u003e which was originally published in 1766 in Paris. Our cover edition, crafted by the bookbinder P.A. Savoldelli at the Hampstead Bindery, is currently held in the British Library’s magnificent collection of antique bindings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scion of a wealthy French family, Claude Dorat (1743–1780) turned away from an expected career in law for a life in the arts. Also known as “le Chevalier Dorat,” he was renowned as a musketeer, a bon vivant and a “petit maître” (minor master) by his contemporaries. \u003cem\u003eLa Déclamation,\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Sébastien Jorry, is written in the style of Boileau and has become the defining work of Dorat’s prolific career. 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