The book-of-the-week,
Journey, is a tiny travel journal. It fits comfortably in the hand at 4 inches tall by 3 inches wide.
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| the cover.. a removable case with paste paper title plate |
Paste paper and vintage fabric make up the outer coverings of both the case and the pamphlet book. A baby blue vintage button and elastic cord make the closure.
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| the botton and elastic closure... |
The book set is made up of two parts: a hardcover board case and a soft-cover two-signature pamphlet book. The simplicity of the pamphlet binding and the sturdy and snug straps on the interior of the case make it possible to re-use the case for a series of travel journals...
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| the case and the removable book |
The pamphlet book has insertions of pages taken from a 1923 Encyclopedia Britannica. A separate book of three of these pages was sewn with a kettle/french-link binding and glued to the first page.
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| vintage encyclopedia pages, a book inside a book... |
The delicate pages are sewn to have fold-outs. Though the reading matter cannot be read totally in context, small snippets of the information can be perused. This additional inclusion of historical information is a nice background to traveling...
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| fold-out pages of the insertion... |
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
-Lord Acton
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| 1919 fact chart... |
In the center portion of the two-signature pamphlet is a pop-out map taken from the 1923 encyclopedia.
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| fold-out map of Germany, 1920 |
The removable pamphlet book and its case are both covered in paste paper in shades of blues, greens, and reds. The pamphlet book has a fore-edge flap that has been covered in hand-dyed indigo. The colors were all chosen in reference to the beautiful Dresden china of Germany, which has a long history as home of German royalty as well as a center of arts and culture.
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| removing the book from the case... |
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| antique Dresden china.. |
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| slipping Journey into the straps... |
Journey is a book for recording the impressions and aspects of the
present while knowing that within a
moment it becomes the
past.
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." -Marcel Proust
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| a German airplane, 1920... |
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