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28/04/1948 - 12/03/2015

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Truth.

(We're also Professional Polyglots)

I want one of these. (by Booksandbrunch)

#not foreign but that's okay #books #bibliophile

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Les Fleurs du Mal by Carlos Schwabe

RIP Charles Baudelaire (April 9 1821 - August 31 1867)

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We’ve just discovered an image in the OUP Archives from the turn of the 20th century of women working in the bindery section of the Press. In the early 20th century both men and women worked at the Press but in separate quarters; the women typically worked in the bindery section, preparing the books after they were printed. Therefore, the vast majority of books from this time period were folded and prepared by women.

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Concreto.

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 Rebecca Campbell

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Today Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven turns 170. Revisit the haunting artwork created for the poem by master painter Edouard Manet.

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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (via bookmania)

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¡Libros por todos lados!

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Grab your shoes and your map!

We’re hitting the streets of Venice, Italy, and we’re doing some literary tourism through the greatest bookish places there are to see.

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Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

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Robert de Montesquiou. Les Chauves-Souris. Clairs-Obscurs. Paris: Georges Richard, 1893. Bound by C.H. Meunier

Source : liveauctioneers

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Oh hey, Patrick Modiano Books, what's going on?

#patrick modiano #patrick modiano refuses to look happy in any photo we've seen #Nobel Prize #Nobel Prize for Literature #french books #french book #foreign books #foreign language #foreign language books #schoenhofs #books #bookstore #book store

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Libri Mundi - Horror literature - Andrés Freile.

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"Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant.

We have so many editions of this, but this is our favorite cover and we've lovingly named it Texas-Face-Head.

We also think its the scariest cover of them all. What do you think?

#halloween #All Hallows Read #scary books #le horla #the horla #guy de maupassant #maupassant #french book #french books #french #foreign language #foreign language books