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A letter opener Charles Dickens made from the paw of his cat Bob. No joke. Bob was very beloved!
NYPL.

The devil's shaggy legs sticking up in the air.
Dante’s Inferno, Vatican Library, Ms Urb. Lat. 365, fol. 95v, 1474–82

Franklin Booth (1874 – 1948) was an influential artist known for his highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.

Map of North America, Jodocus Hondius, 1606.

The Nine Lives of a Cat (1860) by Charles Bennet.

"Beasts on a tree."
Speculum humanae salvationis, France 15th c. Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 24v

Allegory of the Five Obstinate Monsters, ("De Warminiaen").
Anonymous engraving, 1575 - 1618. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

#Onthisday in 1901 Andrew Carnegie offered New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries.

Peter Vilhelm Ilsted, Girl Reading a Letter in an Interior, 1908

Cover design of Lord of the Rings for WenJing Publishing (China).