My cover came darker than the pictured item, but is truely handsome. I was skeptical at first, becuse of the picture (it looke like multiple pieces but is in fact just two solid pieces of leather), but needed a quality product to handle my loose manuscripts and I liked the design and traditional fucntion of this one. This is nothing but leather (I despise pasted liners on leather), rigid enough to protect my manuscript and pliable enough to be comfortable to work with. This product is far better than I expected and a bargain for what I paid for it. A quality product made with quality leather and stitced edges to prevent the odd stretching that sometimes happens with leather bag edges. Beautifully crafted it is certainly worth what I paid and is sure to be with me for a long time in my set of editing tools. I am likely going to purchase more as I could use one for work research and onother for other writing projects. My friends who were there when I openend it immediately asked for the website. Lucky you as you have already found it.