#bibliophilia
the narrator of Rebecca realizes some guests have arrived early and the one person she knows well (her husband) isn’t here and her immediate first thought is to climb out the window and hide in the garden before anyone spots her so they just assume she isn’t home so she doesn’t have to deal with meeting new people without her husband there to be a social buffer
and they say classic literature isn’t relatable
“you‘re so quiet” baby i’m not even here. i’m fantasizing about a book i read weeks ago. move on.
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
— if we were villains,m. l. rio
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wewaveredinwhathadsomehowbecomeanembraceuntilheliftedhishead,foundhisfacetooclosetomine.istaredathim,momentarilybrain-deadexceptforthenonsensicalquestionofwhetherhe’deverlookedatmequitelikethatbefore...
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A friend gave me a hardcover Ivanhoe that she’d hollowed out and filled with truffles she made in her kitchen. Incredible! Best wishes of the season to my followers.
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Carlos Schwabe. Frontispiece made for “L'art et L'idée” (printed by Paul Avril), éd. by Octave Uzanne. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1892.
Japanese paper.
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Bookplate with the motto, ‘Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor’, made by Raphaël Kirchner for Georges Goury.
1905
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Willy. Danseuses.
Ed. Albert Méricant.
Cover art by Charles Atamian (1872, Instanbul - 1947, Paris)
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HOUSSAYE, Henry
Aspasie Cléopatre Théodora. Paris: Les Amis des Livres, 1899
Illustrated by Adolphe Giraldon
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Marcel Schwob. La porte des rêves.
Paris: Les bibliophiles indépendants,1899
featuring art by Georges de Feure (1868-1943).
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Henry Detouche. Les péchés capitaux (deadly sins). Paris: Librairie Artistique, Boudet éditeur, 1900
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Favorite find of the day on Pinterest.
Cover art by dutch artist
Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach (1860-1937)
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Villiers de l'Isle Adam. Histoires souveraines. Ed. Deman, 1899.
Tales compiled after Villiers’s death.
Pages of the book illustrated with a typically Belgian art nouveau typestyle by Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
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Madame de Lafayette. La princesse de Clèves.
A. Ferroud & F. Ferroud, Paris 1925.
Illustrator: Sergei Sergueïevitch Solomko (1867-1928)
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“Princesse de Clèves”, a Belle Epoque bust by the Goldscheider Manufactory (Vienna).
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Gerhard Hauptmann. Die versunkene Glocke. Berlin : Fischer & Franke, 1898.
Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942)
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Cover detail from Adolphe Brisson’s “Florise Bonheur”. Modern Bibliothèque, Arthème Fayard, 1908.
Book illustration by Osvaldo Tofani (1849, Florence -1915, Paris)
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