Doors and book covers are portals to elsewhere. They define a boundary beyond which the rules may change. Take off your hat. No food or drink beyond this point. Animals talk. Magic Happens. Suspend disbelief or risk being shut out.
Back cover of 17th century embroidered satin book with two sets of metal clasps. Back cover of an embroidered satin book cover with two sets of metal clasps. The Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (Edinburgh, 1644) Collection: The British Library
Door, photographer unknown
17th century embroidered velvet book cover. A Comfortable Treatise, for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in Conscience: revised the third time, … interlaced, and enlarged in many places. (London, 1620) Collection: The British Library
Wooden door of the ossuary (1667). Lampaul-Guimiliau, Finisterre, Brittany, France, Europe. Photographer Unknown.
sybil pye, apocrypha, art deco book, 1924
By İhsan Deniz Kılıçoğlu (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Title: The Anturs of Arthur; Sir Amadace; The Avowing of Arthur; Hale Court Records, 1413-1475. Locale: England, 15th century. Location: Manuscripts Division: Robert H. Taylor Collection Call number: Taylor Ms 9 Dimensions: 28 x 21 cm
Wooden door, image source unknown.
Black book, source unknown.
Graffiti door in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Photographer unknown.
Bee Culture, image source unknown.
Charlton House door, image source unknown.
