For Moments of Contemplation, Impulses of Genius

The Romantics viewed the world as a place where delicacy and modesty combined to create perfection. Poetical observations of nature, and feelings of tenderness and melancholy, were preoccupations of the 18th-century Romantic mind. Gentle books of sensibility were the perfect accessory for those moments of contemplation in the garden that led to impulses of genius. Inspired by the antique gilt-embossed leather binding of the 1843 volume “The Poetical Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham,” these sublime cover designs are certain to bring out the romantic in anyone.