Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

On April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church, William, son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, was baptized.

One of the oldest and beautiful bookstores in the world: Lello Bookstore in Porto (Portugal).
📷Edgar Jiménez.

#OnThisDay in 1898 William S. Porter - future "O. Henry" - began a five-year prison sentence for embezzlement.

“It is never too late to be wise.”
📖 Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Defoe, trader, writer and spy, died #OnThisDay in 1731.

Medieval Chewbacca.😂
Le Livre du cuer d'amours espris. BNF, Département des ms, Français 1509, f.8r, 15th century.

#OnThisDay in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

"Detail of a juggler."
🎨British Library Harley 4951, fol. 298v, late 11th century.

#OnThisDay in 1705, Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Anatole France, French poet, journalist, and novelist (Nobel Prize, 1921), was born in Paris #OnThisDay in 1844.

Amy Lowell(1874-1925) was a controversial, cigar-smoking, outspoken, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet(posthumously, 1926)