Book Lovers Greeting Cards

Text on the reverse side:Two children reading c.1919 by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books. The artist first publ...

Text on the reverse side:Did you know that a group of kittens is called a “kindle.”

Text on the reverse side:Early readers develop vocabulary necessary to communicate, and therefore, more likely to attempt to formulate their though...

Text on the reverse side:A bibliophile is one who loves to read, and collect books, often with an extensive collection of books. Beware not to succ...

Text on the reverse side: A play on the Latin phrase “carpe diem”, usually translated as “seize the day”. The extended version of the phrase “carp...

Text on the reverse side:According to Google, the number of books published in all of modern history totals to around 13 million. With publishers c...

Text on the reverse side: Print from the series “Eight Contemporary Poems of Love” by Utamaro Kitagawa (c.1753-1806). This artist is considered on...

Text on the reverse side:The English inventor Henry Mill had patented a similar machine long ago in 1714, which never seems to have gone into produ...

Text on the reverse side:Snow globes are said to have originated in France. The first record of a snow globe dates back to one that was exhibited a...

Text on the reverse side:By British artist William Wood (1769–1810). Wood began formal training at the Royal Academy in 1785 aged sixteen. He was q...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863 - 1935), an American Illustrator who was active during the Golden Age of Illustr...

Text on the reverse side:Ever wondered which nation leads in the battle of book reading? This is in fact Iceland, where people read more books per ...

Text on the reverse side:The word “novel” as an adjective, dates from the early 1400s, and comes from the old French word “novel/nouvel” meaning “n...

Text on the reverse side:There are numerous benefits that come with reading. One benefit was confirmed via a study which found how the act of readi...

Text on the reverse side:From a magazine cover (1906) by Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa (Portugal). The moon has always been a popular theme and a ...

Text on the reverse side: 1874 saw the introduction of the first commercial typewriters, but it was not until after the mid 1880s that they would ...

Text on the reverse side:One of the world’s most impressive private book collection with over 300,000 volumes belongs to Karl Lagerfeld, who state...

Text on the reverse side:For reading comprehension, several brain regions are involved. The temporal lobe responsible for decoding and discriminati...

Text on the reverse side: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote his first novel 'The Pickwick Papers' in 1836 aged just 24. Throughout his life he wro...

Text on the reverse side: This quote was supposedly said by Charles Dickens during his 1847 talk at the opening of the Glasgow Athenaeum. It is ta...

Text on the reverse side:In the series “Beauties of the Yoshiwara as Six Floral Immortals”, the artist Chôbunsai Eishi compares each courtesan to a...

Text on the reverse side:The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the E...

Text on the reverse side:Books in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867) were almost exclusively produced by woodblock printing, and printed on Ja...

Text on the reverse side:The oldest surviving terrestrial globe was made in 1492 by Martin Behaim (1459–1537).

Text on the reverse side:In the Odyssey, is one of the first dogs ever to be named in Western literature - Argos. Having waited for his master to r...

Text on the reverse side:By Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) who painted two similar portraits of the owner of Café de la Gare, Marie Ginoux. In a lett...

Text on the reverse side:The model in the painting is the wife of William Morris, Jane Morris, who was often the subject of Rossetti’s paintings. I...

Text on the reverse side:The smell of a book can be a reminder of things past, with all the linked memories, but also, the smell acts as a trigger ...

Text on the reverse side: In As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7, Jaques speaks Shakespeare’s famous line, “All the world’s a stage”. This design turns...

Text on the reverse side: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice famously opens, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessi...

Text on the reverse side: The caption here playfully adapts Shakespeare’s line “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatne...

Text on the reverse side: By 1882, Dickens was already regarded as a national treasure. This birthday book invited readers to engage with his humo...

Text on the reverse side: Like champagne, a good book should be opened with intention. Both offer indulgence, surprise, and delight, reminding us ...

Text on the reverse side: Design based on a Charles Dickens Centenary stamp discovered pasted inside a book cover commemorating the author’s endur...

Text on the reverse side: Dickens took just six weeks to write 'A Christmas Carol'. For this first edition, 6,000 copies were published on 19th De...

Text on the reverse side:King William IV (1765–37) established the current Royal Library which has continued to expand its collection. It was reorg...