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Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

'The strength of the frontiers, which had always consisted in arms rather than fortifications, was insensibly undermined; and the fairest provinces were left exposed to the rapaciousness or ambition of the barbarians, who soon discovered the decline of the Roman empire' ...
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The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

If you’ve seen old advertisements from the 1950s, then you know exactly what the “Oooo Face” is ...
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Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P.Lovercraft ...
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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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Highlights From An Historic Clip Art Collection

Highlights From An Historic Clip Art Collection

"It's like the Library Of Congress, but for old clip art" ...
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Illustrations By Ed Vebell: Nuremberg Nazis, Hitchcock’s Stuttering Parrot And Ladies In Red

Illustrations By Ed Vebell: Nuremberg Nazis, Hitchcock’s Stuttering Parrot And Ladies In Red

“I still remember lying on the floor in front of a pot-bellied stove at age 6 and announcing to my mom, ‘I’m going to be an artist’” - Ed Vebell, ...
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Gustave Dore’s Superb 1867 Full-Page Illustrations for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Gustave Dore’s Superb 1867 Full-Page Illustrations for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Gustav Dore's work is the ideal match for Raspe's extraordinary Baron ...
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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, A Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, A Pro-Slavery Response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning” - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
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Edward Bawden Illustrations For Ambrose Heath Book Covers

Edward Bawden Illustrations For Ambrose Heath Book Covers

Bawden's charming and seductive cookbook jacket designs ...
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Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations For The Gormenghast Trilogy (1970)

Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations For The Gormenghast Trilogy (1970)

“There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is uniquely brilliant” ...
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Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Picasso's postcards to Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Leo Stein and Guillaume Apollinaire ...
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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...
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