T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets
A portfolio box was created to house the original pamphlet editions of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets cycle.
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The outer slipcase is covered in Arches watercolor paper, edged in Hewit's brown calf skin, and lined with color photocopied maps of London from Baedeker's London and its Environs, 1905. The titling was typed on a 1923 Underwood, and photocopy transferred using solvents (methyl ethyl ketone).
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A cigar style box within the slipcase has a natural calf spine, and is covered with Japanese paper. Under the Japanese paper, the title has been typed onto the lining sheet of Arches watercolor paper.
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The edges of the cigar box sides were covered in a map of London copied from the 1910 Baedeker's Great Britain, and the box was lined with a split of calf skin.
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The images which appear on the calf skin are photocopy transfers from that trusted source of travel information for the curious Edwardian tourist, Baedekker's Guide to London, 1905.
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A selection from one of the poems was typed using a 1923 Underwood, and then photocopy transferred to the calf split.
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Unfortunately, while the leather lining is fabulous in appearance, acid migration is a phenomenon with which all conservators and book collectors are all too well aware. To prevent damage to the four pamphlets from their protective enclosure, a double layer paper wrapper was made, using Arches watercolor paper and a handmade paper.
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