Les Jardins, by Anna de Noailles

This book is bound with rods in natural calfskin and painted with ink in shades of green, and forms evoking plants are printed in rotogravure over the top. This motif continues on the edge-to-edge linings made of the same leather. Matching green titanium rods are used to make the hinges. The flying endpapers are in ecru Vietnamese paper striped with iridescent white ink. The three edges of the book are gilded with white gold. An original fragment of the rotogravure matrix, inked and lacquered, is enclosed in a separate folder.