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
book-aesthete: Chesteron, C.K., Five Types London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905  Numbered 28 of 30 copies on Japanese vellum and bound in Levant morocco, signed by George Sutcliffe, gilt tooled navy blue morocco, the front cover with red floral onlays by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red silk dublures.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway style miniature Shelley Image Courtesy Of The http://www.booktryst.com
A jeweled binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe Omar Khayyam Title: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Edition: Third edition. Published: London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872.
A creation of artist/calligrapher Alberto Sangorski, an illuminated manuscript on vellum, containing calligraphed versions of two poems by Rudyard Kipling, “If” and “Recessional. Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1913
Sangorski & Sutcliffe’s jewelled binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam http://www.bookbinding.co.uk/History.htm
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