Stuart Kells

Faber & Faber shelfie #Faber ⁦@FaberBooks⁩

Amazing 😱 Kookaburra, Australian native bird. 🐦

I cannot believe the word "spruik" is a pure Australian slang term I fully thought it was like a proper word this whole time

The paper might be brittle, but the colours of the Poems (1919) cover are as vibrant today as they were when Leonard & Virginia Woolf hand painted them at the Hogarth Press in 1919. Poems was one of the 1st books published by the Woolfs who hand-set the text and created... 1/2

Need You Tonight Song by INXS ‧ 1987

Illuminated page from the Rushworth Gospels. Dating to the early C9th, it was written and illuminated by MacRegol, Abbot of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. The manuscript is now part of the collections at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxfordshire. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday

'The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture & the San Domingo Revolution' by C.L.R. James is a definitive account of the 18th-century Haitian Revolution, where formerly enslaved leaders forged a model for decolonial liberation movements. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/4du6iTg

Another wishlist secured🤝 #booktwt

Happy Birthday WG Sebald!

Etwas ganz Großartiges, wenn man sich dafür begeistern kann: Ein Faksimile des ersten gedruckten Berliner Adressbuchs von 1801. Dabei sind nicht nur die Namen verzeichnet, sondern auch alle Straßen grafisch dargestellt.

Inside Yale University’s Fascinating Collection of “Magic Books” Making Sense of the Medieval World mymodernmet.com/yale-hidden-ma… via @mymodernmet

Librarymaxxing at Chatsworth.

USS Reliant fx test for the Wrath of Khan, January 1982

Huge congrats ⁦to Professor Clare Wright @clareawright⁩ for Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions. A spectacular achievement

The level of detail in our manuscripts is truly astounding. This intricate design, for example, is only a couple of centimetres tall! 🤯 (@NewCollegeOx, MS 284, f. 11r) #ManuscriptMonday #MedievalTwitter #Medieval

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Czechoslovakian space travel themed matchbox covers from 1963