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"What good is a book if it doesn't have any pictures or conversations?"

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the more you look, the more you see

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Oct 21, 2021

"These things it’s likely may seem Minute and Trivial, but without ‘em great Things cannot subsist."

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Sep 30, 2021

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Sep 9, 2021

Junk drawer, sock drawer, medicine cabinet... commonplace book

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Sep 2, 2021

Fun with form and function!

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Aug 4, 2021

Getting under the skin of rare books and manuscripts

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Jul 7, 2021

My great-grandfather used to run mystery tours. He'd conduct his friends and neighbors to local beauty spots around Yorkshire in a charabanc — a sort of…

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Jun 16, 2021

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