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Wonderful bookcovers: Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du MaL & Voyages Extraordinairies...

"Fantastic Alphabet" by Meister E. S. These were produced in the mid 15th century as part of a series of 23 sheets.

Little girl reading Alice in Wonderland while it comes alive around her.
"My Books" by Honor C Appleton, 1921.

Portrait of Mark Twain in his DLitt (Doctor of Letters) academic dress, awarded by Oxford University,before 1900s.

#OnThisDay in 1850, Poet laureate Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36).

“Your body is a jewel box. The jewel is your soul”
―Kay Boyle, Thirty Stories
📷Boyle in her Paris writing room,1930s

#OnThisDay in 1928, Maurice Sendak, illustrator and writer of children's books ("Where the Wild Things Are") was born

#OnThisDay in 1637, the printing of Descartes’ "Discours de la Methode" (appendix “La Géométrie”). was completed.

A compendium about demons and magic:
Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae [...], 1775. Wellcome Library MS 1766

Italian adventurer, writer and famous lover Giacomo Casanova, died on this day in 1798.