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You don't need a sledgehammer like TikZ to crack this nut:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\begin{document}
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{%\AtPageLowerLeft{%
\color{NavyBlue!80}\rule{\dimexpr1in + \oddsidemargin}{\paperheight}}
Fiddle dee dee!
\end{document}
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This precomputes the default margins and stores them in (unused) length registers. One could probably put the \dimexpr expressions directly into the geometry arguments, but I wanted to make sure nothing changed on the fly.
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\dimen0=\dimexpr \oddsidemargin+1in\relax% compute default left margin
\dimen1=\dimexpr \paperwidth-\...
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If I have well understood may be this will help
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[width=0.7\textwidth,height=0.7\textheight]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\Blindtext
\end{document}
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Use top option for package mcaption.
\usepackage[top]{mcaption}
I have used example-image-a as a picture and disable font used in your code.
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When setting margins for two-sided documents, the deciding question is how a left and a right page look next to each other, not how they look on their own. The right margin of the left page and the left margin of the right page become a single gap between the two type areas here, essentially a "center margin". In chapter 2 of the KOMA-script manual, this is ...
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