Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

Artist: S. E. Stevens
Date of painting: Between 1941 and the 1950s

Painted on: Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Parables of Our Lord (London: John W. Parker, 1850)

Binding: Bound in black leather stamped in gold and blind
Binder: Bound by British bookbinder James Hayday (1796-1872)

link

link



20 notes
  1. holymucilage reblogged this from yama-bato and added:
    Painting on fore-edge pages of a book.
  2. akebon reblogged this from yama-bato
  3. misogra reblogged this from yama-bato
  4. uncertaintimes reblogged this from yama-bato
  5. mayohiga reblogged this from yama-bato
  6. yama-bato posted this