2023: book thirty-nine. #books #bookstodon #2023books #paulgriffiths #thelayofsirtristram #fiction

We shouldn't regret our authors' ignorance of what really was the imagined world they inhabited. I see a world in which the roc and the wyvern have as much validity as the common crow, in which the orbits of the planets are the dwellings of angels, in which heaven and hell appear on the maps. I grieve for the ignorance of ourselves.
--Paul Griffiths, Myself and Marco Polo. New York: Random House, 1989. 138. #quotes #Bookstodon #PaulGriffiths #MarcoPolo

Rounding and backing #TheTombGuardians by #PaulGriffiths in the studio today.

When you bind a book #medieval style with cords, the foreedge of the book will lean out. You can preempt this by rounding the spine so it pulls back. For a longer life, the spine is then backed: hammered into an arch shape.

#handmade #artistsbooks #smallpress #indiepress