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“We are a locomotive people, and during these last twenty years in no way has the national taste for literature been so developed as in the arrangements made for facilitating railway reading.” In this way Anthony Trollope described the reading…

A paper binding for a popular publication.

Bound in marbled paper, which typically has a veined or mottled pattern.

Bound in marbled paper, which typically has a veined or mottled pattern. The text is a manuscript.

The Petite galerie d’histoire naturelle consists of four volumes, each with an embossed and illustrated cover, on the subjects of birds, butterflies, flowers, and fruits: all features found in a cultivated garden. These little books provide the…

A French almanac, covered in gold foil and painted silk.