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"Sleep is good, he said, And books are better."

- George R.R. Martin
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How to sit at the desk: How to hold your pen...

The Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs & Anecdotes of Remarkable & Eccentric Persons in All Ages & Countries, 1788

#OnThisDay in 1653, New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York).
#HappyBirthdayNY!

Polygraphiae (1518) by Johannes Trithemius. The first printed book on cryptography.
He was born #OnThisDay in 1462.

‘Nature forging a baby’.
BL, Harley 4425, f. 140 . Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, XVth cent.

#OnThisDay 1813 in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published.

Titivillus, the "patron demon of scribes," provides an easy excuse for the errors in manuscripts when they are copied

Reading skeleton illustrated by Cyril Bouda, from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 1957 edition

Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 and Monday, 30 July 1883.
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