These beautifully ornate journals ooze joy and warmth with a design inspired by timeless romance.

• Binder boards crafted from 100% recycled material
• Highest-quality Smyth sewn binding
• 120gsm paper, from sustainable forest pulp
• Thin, dark grey lines
• Memento pouch
• Satin ribbon marker

130 x 180mm
240 pages

Publisher's description

Inside the original 1910 version of this sumptuous binding lay one of teh oldest and most effortlessly romantic stories ever written. This gilt and crushed blue levant morocco binding by Emile-Philippe Mercier contained in Jacques Amyot's French translation of the tale Daphnis and Chloe. The original story was composed by the 2nd-century Greek author Longus, a little-known writer assumed to have been a freedman of a Roman family.

Daphnis and Chloe were the fictional lovers against whom all others can be measured. Their story was the inspiration for one of contemporary cinema's most beloved films, The Princess Bride. Daphnis and Chloe were naive lovers separated by pirate abductions and battles a plenty. But love prevails and in the end the are restored to pastoral, wedded bliss.

Our Daphnis & Chloe journals feature orange and purple designs. Orange is associated with Daphnis for its suggestion of joy and warmth, freedom and creativity. Purple the colour of Chloe, combines wisdom and calm, dignity and mystery.