Carl Jung ordered a leather bound large-format book which he filled with impeccable calligraphy and paintings. The project has gone through a number of abstractions:
The Red Book — Jung’s project from 1913 to 1931. His experiences in active imagination, or his descent into the unconscious. The book was kept on a lectern in his office.
The book was put in a bank vault by his family until they released it for publication in 2009. Norton published it as a scanned facsimile with a red cover, including an appendix which was a commentary and translation by Sondushani.
Numerous Jungians have published essays about the Red Book, primarily addressing how it affected the development of his later work.
Jill Mellick published a large format book with a red cover— The Red Book of Hours— in which she analyzed the pigments and inks Jung used from scraps found on his lectern and in the spine of the Red Book. She also wrote about the stone tower Jung built as his home, Bollingen.