Omar Khayyam Book

I keep records of my bookbinding and the first mention of this book was on 3rd February 2010. It is The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and belonged to my father. Indeed it is signed with his name and the inscription Jubbulpore 1936. The cover was in a bad way and I decided to repair it and started by designing special end papers. I ran into lots of trouble with this idea and eventually put it away as I had Michael to look after. In the last few months I have put a lot of effort into it and here is the book in its final state - finished yesterday 29th February 2012, two years after starting. The outline of the buildings was created from photos taken by me in various places but most of it is Fatepur Sikri.

Here is a photo showing the end papers and the inside. I have put so much effort into this project. I even created four copies of the cover, in case of accident. But there wasn't one and the finest copy made it to the cover!

If you enlarge the upper photo, you will see that the first verse is written on the back of the book.

And the question is What  do I do now in the way of a major bookbinding project? I have not decided yet

This morning Dorothy and I did a lot with stencils and so on. This one is interesting because it used the large Okinawan stencil!!!

I fancy it done on gold material.

We walked Jake on the Malvern Hills this afternoon and it was very sunny and warm up there but foggy in the Severn Valley.