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Edward Lear. Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets
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bob, the story of our mocking bird ~ sidney lanier, 1899
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(Source: booksnbuildings, via alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea)
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Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1926. Marbled paper wrappers made by Roger Fry or Virginia Woolf.
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning with Portraits. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. for Smith, Elder, & Co, 1899.
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Tyniec Sacramentarium, Ottonian illuminated manuscript written in ca. 1060-1070, probably near Cologne
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Alberto Sangorski's manuscript of Swinburne's Adieux à Marie Stuart
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning with Portraits. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. for Smith, Elder, & Co, 1899.
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The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley. London, 1886. 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Elaborate blue morocco binding by Kelliegram featuring morocco inlays of a fish, a child swimming, and seagulls, spine lettered gilt, edges gilt. Blue cloth folding case.
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The Madcap of the School by Angela Brazil
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FIGUIER, Louis -Les Merveilles de la Science ou Description populaire des inventions modernes. Paris, Furne, Jouvet, s. d. 4 volumes
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A 15th century book of hours from the Netherlands. This is one of 18 historiated initials by the magnificently named Masters of Zweder van Culemborg. This one shows the visitation.
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Page from an illuminated manuscript of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, watercolor, bodycolor and gold leaf. Calligraphy and ornamentation by William Morris, illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones (1870s)
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W.B.Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds Elkin Mathews, London, 1900. Cover designs by Althea Gyles
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Alderbrink Press (1897 - 1928?) Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning printed 1899
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June 1, 1857 saw the publication of the most important volume of French poetry up till then: Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal Photo of Baudelaire’s copy of the French 1st ed. - turned to the poem "Spleen"
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The New St. John's Bible. Great Illuminations. goo.gl/xEZri
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Botany Bay by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, with dust jacket art by N. C. Wyeth.
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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, with dust jacket art by N. C. Wyeth.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, with dust jacket art by N. C. Wyeth.
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“Sometimes a horrible marionette / Came out, and smoked a cigarette.” Illustration by Althea Gyles, from a 1910 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Harlot’s House
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The Land of Heart's Desire by William Butler Yeats (1894) title illustration by Aubrey Beardsley
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Prang's Natural History Series for Children, 1878
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