Azure Lined Journal

This blue and gold paper blanks equinoxe Azure Lined Journal reproduces a 1688 binding protecting L'office de la Semaine Sainte. The original binding was adorned 'ÌÊ la fanfare,' a hand-tooled pattern edged in gilt. 'Fanfare,' which was a style popular in the seventeenth century, required tremendous skill on the part of the bookbinder and was reserved for books of great importance.