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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 suc...
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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 suc...
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Text on the reverse side: Two children reading c.1919 by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books. The artist first pub...
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Text on the reverse side: Did you know that a group of kittens is called a “kindle.” A6 size (148mm x 105mm) Luxury pearlescent eco certified pap...
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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...
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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 ...
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Text on the reverse side: Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863 - 1935), an American Illustrator who was active during the Golden Age of Illust...
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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...
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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 “carpe...
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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 stat...
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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 “...
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Text on the reverse side: For reading comprehension, several brain regions are involved. The temporal lobe responsible for decoding and discriminat...
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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 ...
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Text on the reverse side: Print form the series “Eight Contemporary Poems of Love” by Utamaro Kitagawa (c.1753-1806), an artist is considered one o...
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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 read...
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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 prod...
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Text on the reverse side: The oldest surviving terrestrial globe was made in 1492 by Martin Behaim (1459–1537). A6 size (148mm x 105mm) Luxury pe...
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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...
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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 let...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Text on the reverse side: William Sherlock Scott Holmes, son of Siger and Violet Holmes, was born 6th January. His birth year as being 1854 is com...
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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...
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Text on the reverse side: King William IV (1765–37) established the current Royal Library which has continued to expand its collection. It was reor...
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Text on the reverse side: Christmas gifting dates back to 336 CE with the idea of gifting originating from the Biblical story in which the Three Wi...
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Text on the reverse side: A photo taken by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), English scientist and inventor, who was also a photography pionee...
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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 ...
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Text on the reverse side: Books in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867) were almost exclusively produced by woodblock printing, and printed on J...
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Text on the reverse side: The Holy Bible is considered to be the best-selling book of all time. The next most commonly accepted publication conside...
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Text on the reverse side: Cats on average sleep for 12-16 hours per day, and like human beings, they dream while they sleep too. A6 size (148mm x...
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Text on the reverse side: When spending time together, cats like to groom other cats and humans. This is called allogrooming. A6 size (148mm x 10...
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Text on the reverse side: Around the 12th century, there have been heart-shaped charges found in heraldry, an example being the hearts in the coat ...
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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 ...
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Text on the reverse side: Book related expressions that you may not know: “Tsundoku” is a Japanese word meaning buying a load of books and not gett...
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