Available January 5, 2025.

A leather bound book filled with vintage handmade paper housed in a box.

A beautiful Properly Made Book, filled with the finest paper for drawing and writing.

THE BOOKS:

This volume is bound in chocolate brown goatskin, with a crimson leather onlay to the cover, with fleur-de-lis tooled in genuine gold leaf to all surfaces.

THE PAPER INSIDE:

The pages inside are made using handmade vintage J Barcham Green Chatham hot press (smooth surfaced) paper made in the 1980s at Hayle Mill in Kent, England.

Chatham is a premium quality, 85gsm rag paper, ideal for use with pens, inks, and pencils. 

THE HOUSING:

This set is housed in a bespoke lift-off lid box, covered and lined with a hand printed paper. 

LAYFLAT:

All Properly Made Books are made to open completely flat and beyond, opening a full 360 degrees, cover to cover, without causing any damage to the spine and giving you full access to the papery real estate.

SIZE:

This book measures 6⅞ x 5 inches (175 x 126 mm) and contains 152 pages of blank paper.

ABOUT PROPERLY MADE BOOKS.

Properly Made Books are made over a period of weeks and months.

Imagine how a book was made in the 18th century - this is how our books are crafted. They are bound entirely by hand in Scotland to the absolute highest standard using traditional techniques and only the finest quality materials

All Properly Made Books are LayFlat allowing them to open fully without causing any structual damage and making them completely usable in the field or studio.

Properly Made Books can be found in countless collections around the world including the Met Library in New York City, Harvard and Yale Special Collections, Miami U and many more.

Every Properly Made Book is unique - VPCo never makes the same book twice

MADE ENTIRELY BY HAND IN SCOTLAND