{"product_id":"paperblanks-lions-den-ultra-hardback-journal-plain-144-pages-pb9380-0","title":"Paperblanks Lion’s Den Ultra Hardback Journal – Plain, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Lion’s Den ultra hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 plain pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis striking Art Deco design comes from the celebrated British bookbinder Sybil Pye. It was crafted to hold a collection of William Wordsworth’s poems illustrated by Thomas Sturge Moore. One of the youngest pre–First World War women binders, Pye was the only binder in England who specialised in inlaid leather bindings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis striking Art Deco design comes from British bookbinder Sybil Pye (1879–1959), heralded as one of the top female artisans of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePye came from an artistic family, her father being a collector of oriental and contemporary art, and she was exposed to the craft of bookbinding at a young age. Using Douglas Cockerell’s classic text \u003cem\u003eBookbinding and the Care of Books\u003c\/em\u003e as her guide, she taught herself the craft of bookbinding, producing her first binding in 1906. Pye began with simple white or natural pigskin leather before graduating to coloured goatskin leather inlay panels, like the one reproduced here. By 1934 she was creating complex covers of many different coloured inlays, and her work was regularly exhibited throughout England and around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis particular design, reminiscent of a tawny lion’s face and using masculine colours of red, black, green and brown evoking a rich leather study (or den), was designed to hold a collection of William Wordsworth’s poems. Currently housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, the poetry collection was illustrated by Pye’s lifelong friend Thomas Sturge Moore and printed by Ballantyne Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough we cannot be sure that Pye intended to evoke the image of a lion’s majestic head with this cover, we felt it offered a tantalising connection between a design and its contents, as one of Wordsworth’s poems is titled “Picture of Daniel in the Lions’ Den, at Hamilton Place.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the youngest pre-War women binders, Pye was the \u003cem\u003eonly\u003c\/em\u003e binder in England (male or female), and among just a few worldwide, who specialised in inlaid leather bindings. 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