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Where art meets alphabet. ✍️✨ Getting lost in the details of these drop caps. There’s a timeless beauty in taking the very first letter of a story and turning it into a garden of ink and imagination.
Starting a new chapter never looked so good.

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kit lecter 🦇👹Mar 24

Thought I'd share some of the vintage/antique book finds from the last ~6 months.

Left to right, top to bottom:

In a glass darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu from 1948 — I had been looking for a vintage copy of Carmilla with no luck until I realised it had originally been published in a short stories collection. It's a blue clothbound under the paper slipcover.

Consult Me — undated but from at least 1904 going by the inscription inside. The entry on how to ride a bicycle is hilariously unhelpful.

Modern Cookery by Eliza Acton from 1851 — the spine is missing so will need to do a repair job, otherwise in really good condition for its age.

The Best Way Book 3 — undated but this was originally published sometime around WWI possibly 1915. I now have all three Edwardian volumes in my collection!

Dracula by Bram Stoker — undated but most probably from 40s or 50s as per some research. I had been looking for a 'pocket sized hardback' clothbound edition for a long while now. And this one was also within my budget (most antique/vintage editions of the book go for at least a couple hundred quids at the cheapest).

Now, the only book I am actively looking for is a 'pocket sized hardback' clothbound edition of Frankenstein. It has the same issue as Dracula. It's gonna be a luck thing to find one.

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~meoralis~Feb 20

#FotoVorschlag: Zitrusfrüchte // Citrus fruits

𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖘𝖆𝖚𝖗𝖚𝖘 𝖗𝖊𝖎 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖇𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖊 𝖚𝖓𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘 (1788–1789), Georg Wolfgang Knorr

Aus der Fürstlichen #Bibliothek #Corvey, eine der größten und kostbarsten Privatbibliotheken Deutschlands
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From the Princely #Library of Corvey, one of Germany's largest and most valuable private libraries

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Mx Krane Oct 29

At least it only includes my digital books and not any of my numerous physical books, most of which are antique or vintage and most probably not in the existing catalogue. XD

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Kristof Zerbe Oct 13, 2025

Library View

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#Photography

Lazy Dragon Sep 4, 2025

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James Green Aug 17, 2025

Pre-1912 edition "Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" by Dean Swift, with "Colored Illustrations".

That's right, Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift's middle name. There is a boy's name & 1913 written inside.

It looks like it is 1894-1900 based on same publisher in a mint green cover & a dark blue cover on ABE Books. #AntiqueBooks

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