A world of Books

Beautiful Antique Bindings, Decor Inspired by Books, Altered Books, diy Binding and other Artistic Book Creations.
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Hours of Idleness by Lord Byron - 1807 with early 20th century jewelled Cosway-style binding by Sangorski Sutcliffe, the interior containing miniature portraits of Lord Byron and his ancestral home, Newstead Abbey. Original silk and velvet lined leather bound case.
First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the Greatest Illustrated Book of the Fifteenth Century (1493)

Antique & Beautiful

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**** this could be an easy but cool detail for our totes/ market bags (like that leather detail on the banana leaf bag)
4 Awesome Coptic Bookbinding Tutorials
book binding. My art teacher taught me how to make my own hard covered books, so I love this tutorial, takes me back some decades..;-)

Book Binding

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How to make a concertina book tutorial by Liz Plummer
Curious about how to write a book review? We’ve developed a step-by-step guide.
'How to turn an Old Book into a New Journal...!' (via itsaLisa)

Book How-to

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great libraries contain something to offend -- mine contains a lot of 'banned' books, never understood why schools would ban books...
Quotable – Ray Bradbury - Writers Write

Book Lovers Decor

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Time travel steampunk journal cover. ( this gallery has 30 different covers in this blog post)
Shakespeare, Tennyson . . . Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love when it alteration finds . . .
Leather Journal / Blank Book with Lock and Key Brown by TeoStudio, $190.00

Handmade Journals

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Yes! That's me, I'd keep my clothes in a suitcase if I could have a palatial library.
Pamela Paulsrud gave these books a second life, as a rug!
I have this - It's called a Book Book. Love it! (Prior pinner says "Vermont Dead Line: STEAMPUNK Gadgets and Devices")

Inspired by Books

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Literary Manuscripts

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Click the image to visit the University at Buffalo Libraries catalog and learn more about the book, including library location information. #ublibraries #bannedbook #bannedbooks
Click the image to visit the University at Buffalo Libraries catalog and learn more about the book, including library location information. #ublibraries #bannedbook #bannedbooks

Mind Blowing & Or Banned

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Family Yearbooks: so the pics don't just stay on the computer.
For the coffee table | Community Post: 19 Perfect Housewarming Gifts For The "Harry Potter" Fan In Your Life
Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics-Beautiful! - I want the Grimms, Hans Christian Anderson, and Alice in wonderland!

Modern Bindings

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Quotes & Pictures

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20 of the century’s most banned books
Top 100 Novels (New York Times) 1. "Ulysses," James Joyce 2. "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce 4. "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov 5. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley 6. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner 7. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller 8. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler 9. "Sons and Lovers," D. H. Lawrence 10. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck 11. "Under the Volcano," Malcolm Lowry 12. ...
<p>Every year, the reading community celebrates banned and challenged books with Banned Books Week. We've pulled together some of our favorite quotes from those books. </p>

Reading Lists & Challenges

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