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A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.
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May
22
Lo there! The roofs
Of our great Hall are rolled in thunder-smoke!W. L. Taylor, from The Holy Grail, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Boston, 1887.
(Source: archive.org)
Hansel put out a knuckle-bone
Arthur Rackham, from Hansel & Grethel & other tales, by Brothers Grimm, New York, 1920.
(Source: archive.org)
May
21
Satyrs fighting billy goats
Tommaso Piroli (engraver), from Antiquités d’Herculanum, published by Francesco and Pietro Piranesi, Paris, 1804.
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Quentin Blake
from Matilda
by Roald DahlMy imaginary best friend.
(via fuckyeahreading)
May
15
Anna saw two eyes of reddish gold, carried forward by innumerable hairs.
J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
The magpie came up to me, hopping in the most graceful manner.
J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
May
14
The greater the fear, the less hope there was.
Erich Schütz, from Historie von der schönen Lau (The story of Lau, the beautiful water nymph), by Eduard Friedrich Mörike, Vienna, 1921.
(Source: archive.org)
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May
10
The hush of night
Myles Birket Foster, from Country life, collective work, London, New York, 1873.
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