How three different authors have used white space and illustrations in their works.
White Space in The Well at the World's End
In this romance written and ornamented by William Morris, and illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones, title pages are filled to the brim with ink in a two-page spread, and chapter titles are adorned with ornamental borders.
Marshall Weber's piece acts as an embodiment of itself: A tale of feeling invisible printed on onion-skin paper and overlaid on top of house blueprints.
Leigh Bardugo's anthology of folktales from her Grishaverse universe evokes the whimsy of fairy tales through its illustrated borders, which grow and change as each story develops and which culminate in two-page illustrations.
