#old library

[ginasdiary]

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw

~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

[magicaloxford]

Looking up from my desk at the swirling lines of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera - the first round library in England 📚.

(also check out my new blog website about Oxford! *:･ﾟ✧)

[eli-zab3th]

Gorgeous books at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, pictures by me, november 2023

[octaviasdread]

(no reposts)

Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

[logophilist1982]

Vintage Bookstore

[darkparisian]

Ireland such a beautiful underrated country !

[rosalie-art]

The Reading Room pencil and digital

[therivalofmars]

hi!! welcome to my page :)

not exactly sure what aesthetic this is, or if this is the type of content i want to post. i haven’t edited since 2020 and i miss having a creative outlet lol. if you like what you see, do stay around! i’ll see how this post does and figure out what to continue posting after <3

[essayisms]

This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

[emperorofthedark]

[autumnallunaphotos]

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

[an-obsessed-bibliophile]

St Gall Abbey Library

[magicaloxford]

The rarely-seen Fellows’ Library of Jesus College, Oxford 📚. Thomas Vaughan, alchemist and explorer of the ‘wild of magick’ 🔮, borrowed books from these curious old bookcases - and reputedly made off with a Welsh dictionary!

To find out about Vaughan, his alchemist wife, Rebecca, and his mystical twin brother, Henry, see my blog post here ✨!

[eli-zab3th]

Library of Kasteel Amerongen, Amerongen, Nederland. Photo by Oscar de Wit.

[nkp1981]

Abandoned Library

[logophilist1982]

Books