Shelley’s ‘Sensitive Plant,’ edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse, illustrated with much richness of coloring and gracefulness of design by Mr. Charles Robinson
Shelley’s ‘Sensitive Plant,’ edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse, illustrated with much richness of coloring and gracefulness of design by Mr. Charles Robinson
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde (via dustoncrowns)
(Source: nirvikalpa)
An illuminated manuscript from Owen Jones’ The Grammar of Ornament, 1856
Bookbinding: From a manuscript of the Mantiq al-tair (The Language of the Birds) of Farid al-Din cAttar,
ca. 1600
Safavid
Iran (Isfahan)
Leather, gold, and colors
If I had a space like this it wouldn’t be as colourful….but still, the design!
(Source: ilovereadingandwriting)
The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral is a unique and fascinating treasure in Britain’s rich heritage of library history.
There were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a ‘library’ in the modern sense.The cathedral’s earliest and most important book is the eighth-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library.
© Claude Paradin: The heroicall devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others
Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
The boy who knew what the birds said (1920, c1918)
© Dugald Stewart Walker
The Book of Kells (Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais)
ca. 800
The boy who knew what the birds said (1920, c1918)
© Dugald Stewart Walker
storyland of stars
~mara l. pratt
1892
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Borejko Chodźko
© Emily J. Harding
