Azure (Equinoxe) Midi Lined Hardcover Journal (Elastic Band Closure)

This blue and gold Paperblanks Equinoxe Azure journal reproduces a 1688 binding protecting L'office de la Semaine Sainte. The original binding was adorned 'à la fanfare' a handtooled 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.