Most of the purchases were pretty standard fare for those who deal in antiquarian books and documents, but as he sorted through the manuscripts, Voynich noticed one particular book which was very unusual - very unusual indeed!

Here are some things we know to be true about being a bibliophile. If we see someone reading the...

Those windows and doors! The stone walls. The beamed ceiling, The floors. The range hood. The outside. The old cutting boards. All of it. Yes, please. @ozarchitects

What would happen if you saw a book filled with images that reminded you of what you saw when you were fried on acid? This is just the case when I first saw the pages of the Codex Seraphinianus. These are the kind of visuals that take over my imagination when I listen too much […]

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One of my treasured books~ "A Little Princess" My copy has an inscription dated 1919 from an aunt to her niece. Written in 1905 by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts [American Golden Age illustrator 1878-1956] Betts was the daughter of a physician, and the sister of the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts. Both sisters studied at respected universities and with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle. ______ My scan and digital restoration

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: a Posy from the Plays. Walter Crane. London: Cassell & Co. (1909). First edition. “Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly...

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I can't believe that White Wednesday is here again already. The days just seem to fly by anymore and I am getting farther and farther b...

[Hans Christian] Andersen's Ausgewählte Märchen Deutsch von Julius Reuscher Illustriert von Ludwig Richter, Paul Thumann, Theodor Hosemann und Oskar Pletsch. Verlag Ernst Julius Günter Nachf. (Leipzig / Deutschland; 13. Aufl., 1880) 224 S.

“Nancy and Nick in the Land-of-Dear-Knows-Where” by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E.R. Higgins. Copyright 1921 by publisher George H. Doran Company, New York.

4 p. 21 cm

I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down.

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It's like Medieval Times, with a kiss of psychedelia. A book in which strange globules float freely, alien plants shimmy across the pages, and female figures slide into a pool of green plasma. Binding them all together? A beautiful, albeit entirely indecipherable script by an unknown author. The "Vo

Miniature Books - Book of Hours Text from original caption: Book of Hours. Venice: c. 1480. 3 x 2”. show different treatments with skulls, introducing the Office of the Dead. from “Miniature books:...

Culturevore: A blog about design and writing. Inspirations from: illustration, graphic design, literacy, film, art, dance and photography.

8 p. : ill. ; 85 x 57 mm.

Cover of Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Chicago, New York, and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888.

Every month, I profile an artist who inspires my own art, in several segments. Dorothy Carleton Smyth produced many illustrations that refer to times past. I’m calling these “his…

Anne Boleyn allegedly held this prayer book during her beheading in 1536.

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