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Happy Today we have an image we found on our phone without any contextual information but decided to share it anyway. We look forward to stumbling on the source at some point.

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2021-02-16

Happy This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv

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2021-02-02

Happy This week's post shows the beautiful hand-marbled pages from an earlier post. The papers were created by Christine McNair in 2004. (Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, 1974).⁠
https://t.co/x2DrJh69N3

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2019-09-23

Happy This pattern, with its distinctive white spots, is from The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey.
Published in 1718, it was written by John Aubrey (1626-1697), an antiquarian and biographer.
https://t.co/kxwAKLmKGw

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2019-08-13

It's This lovely bouquet pattern is found inside our 1707 edition of "The beaux stratagem: a comedy." Published in London, it was written by George Farquhar, an Irish dramatist.
https://t.co/Vg9BIN5dRN

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2019-06-17

Happy This richly patterned paper is found on the inside boards of Robert Ball's "In starry realms". Published in 1892, it is a book on astronomy, meant to "give the general reader some sketches of specially interesting matters relating … https://t.co/l7h2jKOw3t

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2019-04-22

From the Bernoulli's 1738 Hydrodynamica "explained the nature of fluid pressure and proposed that an increase in the speed of a fluid is accompanied by a decrease in pressure, a concept now called 'Bernoulli's principle.'" Makes for a lovely

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2019-03-25

🌊 Dive in to our copy of Elizabeth Blackwell's Herbarium Blackwellianum (1750) this 🌊

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2018-11-19

Happy Here is a Turkish tricolour for Queen's colours are gold, blue, and red and have been fondly called the tricolour for almost a century. [JC389 .W45 1789] https://t.co/HqSSmVSNZG

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2018-08-06

Happy We're hitting the road this week and headed to for the annual Rare Books and Manuscript Section (RBMS) and American Library Association (ALA) conferences. This bright orange matches our level of enthusiasm to see… https://t.co/aVTXelmbyX

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2018-06-18

Happy#MarbledMonday! Here are some lovely endpapers from "A Compleat History of the Late War in the Netherlands," … https://t.co/XBIDOhj8wC

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2017-09-26

Happy We're loving these peach from Robertson Davies' 1832 set of Byron's works! https://t.co/0Ll5ctULBP

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2017-08-21

Happy These delightful tricolour French curls are from William Somner's "The Antiquities … https://t.co/kufhE27sZC

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2017-08-14

We almost missed Here are some gorgeous red to finish our weekend! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦#lo… https://t.co/F5NrRa5woa

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2017-07-04

Happy Blue was used for endpapers & binding of this book. You can see how the paper & leather fade over time.

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2017-05-09

Happy A comb and swirl combo in vibrant primary colours decorates the inside of "Traité de l'archi… https://t.co/wI5SaDgyAd

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2017-04-18

Happy These lovely endpapers are from "Argumentum anti-Normannicum" (1682)… https://t.co/cD4zHbe6eA

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2017-01-10

Happy This gorgeous pink Spanish pattern is found in "The Wo… https://t.co/4rSxq2z4oP

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2016-09-27

Happy These gorgeous blue end sheets are from John Buchan's "War Miscellan… https://t.co/iBCLzsOscn

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2016-07-05