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This handsome ca.1890 set of #ThomasCarlyle's #FrenchRevolution would look lovely on your shelf! Three-quarter #leather with #marbledboards, #raisedbands, and #topedgesgilt. #Illustrated with #engravings. $60. #Booksky #history #France #LouisXIV #MarieAntoinette #revolt
April 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Palm-sized, the Weather Calendar 1917 compiled by Mary Ruth Mayhew (aka Lady Head, Ruth Head, Mrs. Henry Head).
Passage from a letter/diary every day. Bound in #marbled paper wrappers bit.ly/weathercalen...
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Cover of closed book, held in a hand showing marbled paper boards, paper title, price label visible. Title page of the book. The Weather Calendar OR A Record of the Weather for Every Day in the Year Being a Series of Passages Collected from Letters and Diaries and arranged by Mrs Henry Head. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Oxford at the Claredon Press M DCCCC XVII Weather passages for July 28, 1917, including the very relevant, “Intensely hot.” "1787. St. Swithin is not friend to correspondence, my dear Lord, there is not only a great sameness in his own proceedings, but he makes everybody else dull--I mean in the country, where one frets at its raining every day and all day....I remember Lady Suffolk telling me that Lord Dysart's great meadow had never been mowed but once in forty years without rain. Walpole. 1800. Intensely hot. William went into the wood, and altered his poems. Dorothy Wordsworth.
July 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM