Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

In 1915, poet Amy Lowell ordered 10,000 manila cigars to see her through an anticipated wartime shortage.

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
#DaVinci
📷 @UChicago, M. J Aleman

#OnThisDay in 1936, Edna St Vincent Millay's Conversations at Midnight book of poetry was destroyed in a hotel fire.

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
―John Steinbeck
📷WWI British recruitment posters, 1915

H. P. Lovecraft created one of the few fictional books that was later turned into a real book: The Necronomicon.

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton, British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, was born #OnThisDay in 1854.

Robert Gibbings ( 1889 – 1958), wood engraving for Samson and Delilah, 1925.

#OnThisDay in 1893 Anita Loos was born. Her most enduring creation is the 1925 novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

ROYAL HOBBY’S or The Hertfordshire Cock-Horse, anonymous, but George Cruikshank, 1819.