Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
📖 Aldous Huxley.

George Bernard Shaw in the audience at a charity boxing tournament at the Stadium Club in Holborn, London, 1929

"Grimm's Fairy Tales", is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers.

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer. He published more than 50 novels, 70 works of nonfiction and hundreds of articles

"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
🎨Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, 1957-1965

"Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis" is a spell book published by Johann Scheible in 1849.

Maurice Sendak’s Little-Known and Lovely Posters Celebrating Books and the Joy of Reading.

#DidYouKnow?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry never saw his book "The Little Prince" published in his home country (France).

"Panem et circenses" ("Bread and circuses", "Pan y circo")
Map of Spain and Portugal, L. Lancaster, 19th century.

Political Cartoon of John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism, grabbing land on every continent, 1888.