Paperblanks Voltaire Destiny, Book of Fate Midi - Lined 4001 Inks this piece arrived at the

this piece arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art via the Rogers Fund in 1945

our Sierra cover pays homage to the craft of delicate gold tooling

At first glance

Noodler's El Lawrence is another ink where the colour is difficult to pin down

along with his famous quote

Paperblanks Voltaire Destiny, Book of Fate Midi - Lined 4001 Inks this piece arrived at theVoltaires Book of Fate This design comes from an 1893 binding housing Voltaires Zadig, or The Book of Fate. First published in 1747, it tells the story of Zadig, an ancient Babylonian philosopher. The book is a philosophical treatise that provides thematic inspiration for the modern detective story, including for Edgar Allen Poes C. Auguste Dupin. Franois Marie Arouet (16941778), known as Voltaire, was a writer, philosopher, poet, dramatist, historian