Over the last 30 years, our Embellished Manuscripts Collection in particular has revealed the beautiful evolution of our journals.
One of our first Paperblanks series featured the handwritten manuscripts of American writers Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and our first Embellished Manuscripts featured the original drafts of Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
Each of our Embellished Manuscripts has a story, and over the last 30 years our collection has grown to represent a mosaic of talent.
We’ve worked with what is considered to be Shakespeare’s only surviving manuscript. We’ve included Darwin’s Tree of Life and Freud’s Architektur der Hysterie. Our most recent addition includes a manuscript page of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
Although we’ve put together a selection below, there is so much more to discover in our Embellished Manuscripts library. But for now, here is a handful of our most iconic Embellished Manuscripts designs.
Tesla, Sketch of a Turbine
Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Emily Dickinson, I Died for Beauty
Monet (Water Lilies), Letter to Morisot
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Bram Stoker, Dracula
