A detail from Rosa Gallica Purpuro-Violacea Magna — drawn from Pierre-Joseph Redouté's landmark botanical treatise Les Roses, published between 1817 and 1824 — fills the canvas cover in deep burgundy and crimson against an ochre ground: two fully open roses, sharp thorned stems, and a cluster of closed buds rendered with the precision that made Redouté the foremost botanical illustrator of his era. Part of Slow's Libri Muti (Mute Books) series, this notebook is made entirely by hand in Florence using traditional printing and bookbinding techniques that Founders Roberto di Filitto and Nathalie Schneider have spent years researching and reviving.
The pages open flat and stay there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in deep rose pink — drawn directly from the palette of the cover. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Rosa Gallica Purpuro-Violacea Magna, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Les Roses, 1817–1824 — hand-coloured page edges: pink
Bound notebook — canvas cover — 15×21cm — 320 pages
Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm — PEFC certified, acid-free
Exposed spine stitching, lay-flat construction, hand-coloured page edges
'Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity' — Hermann Hesse
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