Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
--Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Women reading, 1920s.

The History of Don Quixote. Engravings by Gustave Doré, 19th century.
Texas A&M Univer.sity Cushing Memorial Library

#OnThisDay in 1605, Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament (The Gunpowder Plot)

List written by Leonardo da Vinci, reminds himself to obtain a skull, to get his books on anatomy bound ..., 1510.

"Los hombres valen para mí más que los sistemas"
-- Julio Cortázar

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
--J. Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"Magic Bowl" with text in Aramaic, ca. 5th-7th centuries C.E. Wolfe collection, Jerusalem; courtesy of Lenny Wolfe

Engraving of Hercules performing one of his labors as he forces the Cretan Bull to the ground, B. Picart,1731.

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

Cockatrice and Crocodile. Dragon with human head in mouth.Bodleian MS. Ashmole 1504, 'The Tudor Pattern Book', 12th c