Here are some more photos with some notes of explanation for each spread:
The first set of endpapers for the diary including several inserts pasted to the first page. The French franc was made black-and-white first then colored by hand to match the original insert which was a hand-colored photocopy, unlike the actual 1899 silver certificate used later in the diary:
This is one of my favorite pages because it is so inexplicable... it seems that for some reason a single text sheet (blank on the back) was given a quick spray-paint aging and then glued into the diary:
Another MWNN insert:
The classic spread:
Another classic with watercolors:
This shows the back side of the "X marks the spot" spread which is blank along with my Roman Numerals insert:
This is an insert, not a spread... the only "leap from the lion's head" drawing in the hero diary:
Pencil-drawn additions to the back of another MWNN spread:
More watercolor "ink" stains copied carefully from the hero diary:
Fold-out map insert with glued down, strangely cut-and-pasted almanac-page insert:
The cover again with my rubbing. For years I was doing this in wax crayons, but for this one I decided to do it with high-quality coloring pencils and the detail came out much sharper:
Kind regards,
Magnoli