It was. I also accessed old woodcuts from one of my print programs and literally glued, using a paper hinge, all the pages together one page at a time.I then glued stiff cardboard to the back and front and used decorator paper to cover the back and front. Then I made a quartz crystal pendant to go with it.

Also, for the record, the "Philosophers Stone" of the alchemists was actually a liquid! And the fact that they were using liguid mercury was the main reason so many of them died suddenly.