{"product_id":"nypl-mimosa-poetry-in-bloom-journal","title":"Softcover NYPL Mimosa Poetry in Bloom Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany of Paperblanks' cover designs are reproductions of book bindings that come from long-ago eras, when books were treasured as precious objects. One might have the expectation that with the arrival of the modern age and mass production, the art of book binding would have become obsolete. However this Poetry in Bloom design, a reproduction of a 1910 book binding, is a reminder of the kind of artistry that could be produced only with these modern machines and techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis design reproduces the cover of \u003cem\u003eThe Sensitive Plant and Early Poems,\u003c\/em\u003e a collection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written in the wake of his child’s death, Shelley’s title poem describes a flower garden going through seasonal changes. First the garden embodies the joy and bliss of spring and summer, and later it becomes consumed by the decay and lethargy of fall and winter. With this poem, Shelley invites the reader to contemplate how the only connection to reality that we have is through fleeting sensations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike most of their designs, which emulate the front part of a book cover, this Poetry in Bloom design is a recreation of the original’s front “doublure,” the inside face of the cover board. Protected from wear, this part provides bookbinders with additional room for unleashing their creative skills. Here, the binders of Riviere and Son, a London-based binding house, used leather and gilt to create a naturalistic representation of flowers, leaves and butterflies. The sensitive plant, named after its reflex to fold its leaves when touched or shaken, is the focal point of the design’s composition, just as it is in Shelley’s poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe book that inspired this design came from the personal library of W. A. Spencer and now resides in The New York Public Library’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSpencer Collection of fine bindings and illustrated books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/passenger-remember-introducing-spencer-collection\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWilliam Augustus Spencer\u003c\/a\u003e visited the Library's Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street building in 1910, while it was still under construction. He was so impressed that he vowed to bequeath his personal collection of fine illustrated books in fine bindings to the Library. Only two years later, Spencer booked passage on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, and did not survive the terrible wreck. His will included not only the donation to NYPL of his own library, but also a fund for \"\u003cem\u003ethe finest illustrated books that can be procured, of any country and in any language, and that these books be bound in handsome binding representing the work of the most noted book-binders of all countries, thus constituting a collection representative of the arts of illustration and bookbinding.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New York Public Library's collections contain millions of prints, photographs, maps, objects, manuscripts, and posters. 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