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thebeautifulbook · 1 hour

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FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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aliengh0st · 6 months

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Beyond obsessed with my Dazzling Bookish Shop editions of the Locked Tomb books! 😍💀❤️ Now I just need Alecto to come out so I can get all of my various collections completed 😬

#locked tomb posting #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #beautiful books #the locked tomb #aliengh0st #dazzling bookish shop #let’s not talk about how many copies i have of each book they aren’t even all pictured here #edit: i feel so bad every time this post gets popular cuz this was a limited set and the resale prices are bonkers

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borninwinter81 · 3 months

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No Nightingales and The Revolt of the Angels

Following seeing this post the other day regarding the existence of a book called "No Nightingales" about a pair of ghosts living in a house at Berkeley Square, as well as a revelation in the reblogs which says Neil Gaiman is a fan of the authors, I had to get myself a copy.

Unfortunately (no doubt due to a number of people having the same reaction!) there are no longer any copies on ebay, but I wanted to share these pictures of mine. It's clearly ex library, it has beautiful endpapers and I love it without even having started to read it!

I will make another post once I have read it regarding any plot points which may have significance for S3 😁

If you also want to read it I believe there are online library copies, and I think someone may have even posted scanned pages into one of the reblogs on the post I've linked above.

EDIT: @fuckyeahgoodomens just shared a link to read this book here

Also this one, which I posted about the other day. No direct impact upon GO that I know of, other than being about the Angelic war between Heaven and Hell. The William Blake painting on the cover of this edition is a bonus, its The Angel of Revelation.

Again, I'll make another post when I've finished it if there is anything of significance!

20 pages in, and I can tell you it also involves a library, and a librarian who hates people borrowing books. Sounds familiar...

#good omens #good omens 2 #go2 #crowley #aziraphale #good omens book #intertextuality #no nightingales #ineffable husbands #the revolt of the angels #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #good omens season 3 #good omens s3 #Good omens book club #good omens meta #old books #beautiful books #vintage books

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michaelmoonsbookshop · 6 months

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Beautiful pictorial cloth bindings

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #michael moon's bookshop #antiquarian #book covers #antique books #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #vintage #victorian #beautiful books #rare books #whitehaven

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checanty · 6 months

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HELLO EVERYBODY! Guess who got to illustrate Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant for the @foliosociety??? The book turned out so beautiful, I can die happy now.

You can order a copy here.

#Still trying to figure out how to take *aesthetic* pictures #this is such a dream come true!#Also I'm so behind on promoting so much stuff #Folio Society #The Buried Giant #Book Illustration #beautiful books #books #Kazuo Ishiguro

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othmeralia · 1 month

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