Thackeray Altered Book

[BananaAmbush]

I recently made this altered book out of a thrift store find called "The Adventures of Philip Volume 2." It was published in 1900, and I thought the title was so hilarious that I had to have a go. Everything inside is actually carved into the book, and when you open it, there's a pop-out dirigible!



The author's name is Thackeray, but I thought in my altered version, Thackeray could be a monster that Philip has to fight.





The two page-spreads are somewhat linked by the fact that you can see through the middle chunk into both spreads:



I liked to think of Philip as a dork who imagines grand adventures from the comfort of his study (projecting a little bit, maybe?  ) Finally, the back:

[tendstowardschaos]

That's brilliant! I love what you've done to this book.

[thisbirdsabsurd]

Awesome!  Love what you didmwith the cover too!  I showed this to my daughter and she said - "Oh - like Brian Dettmer!" 

[rackycoo]

It's wonderful! I'm happy to add it to my collection. 

[mingus107]

I love this! Very intriguing!

[Oodelally]

Wow! That's so great <3
I would love to try to make one of these books

[imera]

Wow, this is ana amazing pop-up book My favourite part has to be your drawing skill, nice colours, and you didn't cover up all the text.

[Nikky247]

This is fantastic
I love layering effects like this.

[thisbirdsabsurd]

Seeing this again reminds me...I work right next door to a used book store and almost every day when I walk out back there are books in the dumpster.  I check them out sometimes and the book guy must have noticed because recently I find them stacked on the EDGE of the dumpster. 

[beatrixhall]

This just makes me happy!

[goddessgarb]

This is really cute and top work!  The cover reminds me of John Lennon's sketches and Yellow Submarine art.

[modified]

This is just.. perfect. I love it!

[LiveLikeAGrrl]

Such an imagination!  I need to get over my "squidgies" about cutting into books, STAT!