We’re eyeing the gorgeous green Dutch-gilt paper wrappers on our copy of Prayers and Hymns for the Use of Children (1800) on this #WrapperWednesday
Dutch-gilt paper was a popular decorative paper produced in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and can be found in a variety of colors with embossed or printed decoration mimicking popular brocades and damask fabrics of the period.
Ooooooo! Beautiful
Don’t Go Into the Library
Alberto Ríos - 1952-
The library is dangerous—
Don’t go in. If you do
You know what will happen.
It’s like a pet store or a bakery—
Every single time you’ll come out of there
Holding something in your arms.
Those novels with their big eyes.
And those no-nonsense, all muscle
Greyhounds and Dobermans,
All non-fiction and business,
Cuddly when they’re young,
But then the first page is turned.
The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,
The aroma of coffee being made
In all those books, something for everyone,
The deli offerings of civilization itself.
The library is the book of books,
Its concrete and wood and glass covers
Keeping within them the very big,
Very long story of everything.
The library is dangerous, full
Of answers. If you go inside,
You may not come out
The same person who went in.
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As you probably already know, either if you know me personally or if you got here by accident and read a couple things I wrote, you know I love books. So I thought I would share a little bit of my personal collection (which, sadly, is not very big).
I have both physical and digital books. Most of my physical were gifted to me, and most of my digital are pdf’s someone forwarded to me. I…
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