Book Porn

[AllyRose]

Not quite what you'd expect.

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mlw43gn6Dj1qzp5iio1_500.jpg

 

[AllyRose]

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mm12azJCbf1ru01b9o1_1280.jpg

 

[AllyRose]

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mi6si6PULV1qzupj0o1_1280.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

Incunabula

Birth of Eve

http://medievalandrenaissancestudies.vassar.edu/images/birthOfEve.jpg

Garden of Eden

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5057737301755279&pid=15.1

 

[KRCummings]

http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/3-28/HRKxSYeGFp-2.png

 

[butters]

http://cdn.blogs.babble.com/family-style/files/fantasy-beds/08.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/tumblr_l9y7g4ce7S1qzb5wzo1_500_zps5ed45253.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/tumblr_mda6pw8HWC1rkjdtfo1_1280_zpsf29512f1.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

I love these booknook thingies.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/990b07c4b4bf9f353b7a796944fcbcd0_zps308de46f.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/theroom.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/slumber.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/mar4.jpg

 

[Lorilei]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b43a9d531e031aab87d2d82a4734b038/tumblr_mn9ro4X5Zm1rt0cblo1_500.jpg

 

[Lorilei]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/727d106af592fec4b2d679eb31f7cc55/tumblr_mn9rmch5M11s6f4s1o1_500.jpg

 

[Lorilei]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/4e9377ee25cb5b556477c136e4c9a252/tumblr_mn9rjyGNaI1s2g6qao1_500.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

Our most valued book, not our most valuable, is a large 19th copy of Cervantes Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré.

More than forty years ago, we had been married six weeks when we saw the book in a secondhand bookshop in Hastings, East Sussex. The price was ten pounds. We couldn't afford it.

We looked at it longingly but walked away. Half an hour later we passed the bookshop again. We stopped outside and looked at the book still on show in the window.

We counted out just how much money I had in my pockets and she had in her handbag. We had a few small coins more than ten pounds.

We bought it and have treasured it ever since. We had to live on rice and pasta for the rest of the month because we were broke.

It has nearly one thousand of Doré's illustrations. This picture is about full size:

http://weheartillustration.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dore1.jpg

We could easily buy another copy today but it wouldn't be our copy. It was our first major purchase as a married couple.

 

[Lorilei]

Our most valued book, not our most valuable, is a large 19th copy of Cervantes Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré.

More than forty years ago, we had been married six weeks when we saw the book in a secondhand bookshop in Hastings, East Sussex. The price was ten pounds. We couldn't afford it.

We looked at it longingly but walked away. Half an hour later we passed the bookshop again. We stopped outside and looked at the book still on show in the window.

We counted out just how much money I had in my pockets and she had in her handbag. We had a few small coins more than ten pounds.

We bought it and have treasured it ever since. We had to live on rice and pasta for the rest of the month because we were broke.

It has nearly one thousand of Doré's illustrations. This picture is about full size:

http://weheartillustration.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dore1.jpg

We could easily buy another copy today but it wouldn't be our copy. It was our first major purchase as a married couple.

Awww, I love that story. And that's gorgeous!

 

[lovetoread]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/4e9377ee25cb5b556477c136e4c9a252/tumblr_mn9rjyGNaI1s2g6qao1_500.jpg

Hah!!

 

[islandman]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/548014_494865903872212_2080591895_n.jpg

 

[Lorilei]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a827aa105739c23e19223d90230a62e9/tumblr_mn9r9zQmXb1srgmtfo1_500.jpg

 

[Lorilei]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1100f745714d5c6fcad26c8d8aa10e48/tumblr_mn9r1fbIoY1ssx2ybo1_500.jpg

 

[phrodeau]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2090023/a-page-turner-o.gif

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Not quite what you'd expect.

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/allymccrabe22/tumblr_mlw43gn6Dj1qzp5iio1_500.jpg

nice picture

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Pop-up porn for the library.

 

[AllyRose]

I love these booknook thingies.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/990b07c4b4bf9f353b7a796944fcbcd0_zps308de46f.jpg

There will be one of those in nearly every room of my estate.

If I ever get around to owning such an estate.