#Old Book

[conservethis]

Mmmmm

[marinawoznjuksworld]

[lepetitdragonvert]

Fairy Tales of Hans Andersen

Philadelphia

J. B. Lippincott Company

Artist : Helen Stratton

[occultesotericart]

Inevitable fate /// etching print from a 1541 text

[thesorceresstemple]

[moishe-pipick]

[eloquenthubak1982]

Russian Literature

[arconinternet]

The Canterbury Puzzles (Book, Henry Dudeney, 1907)

You can read it here. If the Internet Archive is still down, you can also read it on Project Gutenberg here.

Image above is from here (also archived here).

[quietchanges]

Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (my favorite poet)

[drunkenelevator]

I was really surprised when I found it. I forget how I made it, lol. But I think he could write this book, why not.

[academic-vampire]

What’s the oldest published book you’ve ever bought? I bought a book from a used book store by Tolstoy that is (I realised today) 108 years old. Kinda cool to think of all the people who’ve read that exact copy since 1916 all the way to 2024…

Absolutely. I loveeee old books. Finding them feels like discovering some ancient tie between humanity—the eternal love of literature. It’s a fantastic feeling.

I found this collection of Robert Burns’ poetry in a library’s used bookstore once and bought it for about $7, I think. There isn’t a publication date inside, but there was a NOTE. The note is dated: 1884! So, who knows when it was published! But it’s at least 140+ years old. :)

I really love this little book. The illustrations and the cover are beautiful. I would be thrilled to see your Tolstoy book, too :)

What a great question, thank you for asking, dear. :)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh and other Peagants for a Baby Girl

1907

Author and illustrator: Walford Graham Robertson

[occultesotericart]

Vigilant labor /// circa 16th c

[cerberus-albian]

In the last weeks I have dreamed of a strange creature like this 🦌 a deer with two heads... So weird because everything it's out of context 🫥

[eloquenthubak1982]

Dark academia reading