Many Times Whilst Watching Movies,

we have seen people in them wearing strange tattoo like writing symbols,

or in books with mystical spells and writings, we have always wondered who thinks them up in the first place, well this may be part of the answer, these are two pages from the works of Albert Angus Turbayne (1866 – April 29, 1940) (there is a collection of more pages here), who was an American book designer and bookbinding artist, he was born in Boston, Massachusetts, He worked in London for the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography and also for Carlton Studio, but his principal artistic work was the design of books and bindings, He won a bronze medal (third place) for book binding design at the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, 

Turbayne and was married in London on two occasions, the first in 1906, to Christine Owens and the second, to Millicent Tavener (b. 1884), in 1921, Turbayne and Owens had two sons, William Turbayne (later name change to William Seymour) and John Turbayne, born in 1914, who changed his name to John Seymour Turbayne died in London in 1940, 

as an aside here is the cover of one of the many books he designed,

which looks surprisingly like the design of the 1899 International Philatelic Exhibition commemorative stamp given away at the exhibition,

of which I have a few in my collection,

 I wonder if Albert had a hand in their design? I have in fact searched through images for his work, but found no trace of the stamp design.