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In honor of Edward Gorey’s birthday tomorrow, we are looking at some of the artist and author’s rare

Here’s a #shelfie of tomes from the Lea Library. Founded by historian and publisher Henry Charles L

This #shelfie is from the display case of the Dembo Juvenile Literature Collection held on the secon

This florid, beautiful script can be found in the pages of a ledger of expenses of Fabbio Giunigi, B

Captain George A. Q. Miller was a Civil War veteran and a special agent in the United States Post Of

These letterheads can be found in a spectacular book titled “The Letterhead: History and Progress”,

This beautifully illustrated title page is from a bound collection of two works of Aristotelian scho

Here is the frontispiece to an alluring entry in the #KislakCenter ’s Collection of British and Amer

Feed the birds Detail from *Opusculos varios*, a collection of 14 works bound together, mostly con

Happy Labor Day! Hopefully you’re not spending your holiday doing yard work like our friend he

This lustrous page cites passages from Shakespeare that convey how Macbeth’s ambition leads to his d

From the early days of photographs all the way up to the mid 20th century, the prominent Philadelphi

Detail from an artists book of Wilbur Nesbit’s poem *I Sat In Lodge with You*. Read the entire poem

There’s a satisfying pairing motif happening in this Biddle family photograph. Two staunch ladies, t

“…if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at

This lion comes from a manuscript dating between 1227-1237 from Padua. It consists of a brief explan

A dragon’s head emerges amidst winding flora in this zoomorphic initial. This illumination can

“De historia stirpium commentarii” is a beautiful book created by German physici

This is your last chance to see the Kislak Center exhibit *Intertwined Worlds* before it comes down

Detail from a Thai Medical Manuscript that has both medical diagrams and religious illustrations of

Jane Wright Proctor and Allan D. Wallis were the parents of ten children. Every year they took a ph

Rocket Cat… burning out his fuse up here alone The fourth’s lit up night sky reminded

A beautiful #finebinding of Poetical Works of Robert Browning from the #lisabaskincoll. The bi

No, we didn’t bake him a special cake like Hagrid did, but we’re wishing #HarryP

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