A Curated Miscellaneum

Hotel Lambert, Paris 

St. Florian Monastery, Austria (by Wolfgang Grilz)

London home of Bernard Nevill. Photo - The World of Interiors

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1887 designed by Rafael da Silva and Castro - Marcelo Nacinovic. Photos : Aaron Leiby 

The binding shown above is found in the British Library Database of Bookbindings. This binding has been attributed to Derome le jeune, however a comparative study of the gold tooled imprints reveals that the tools used the create this beautiful dentelle à l'oiseau were those of Dubuisson.

Place of Publication - Venice Date of Publication - 1584

Norman Rockwell, Boy Reading Adventure Story

1923, oil on canvas

Collection of George Lucas

I think this might be my favorite Norman Rockwell painting now...

 Treasured Books…

Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum, NYC.

Bibliotheksinterieur mit lesender Magd, Édouard John Mentha

Charles de Beistegui library. Chateau de Groussay.

Binding Silver gilt binding from a manuscript of the Four Gospels, decorated with the scene of Christ’s crucifixion. Date 1669 Current location British Library Link Accession number Or. 14839, binding Originally published/produced in Erevan

the juun.j limited

Photo: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/124845120@N03/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Cover of a Roman Missal featuring the Tetragrammaton and the Paschal Lamb