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Early books[edit]
Romance Papyrus (2nd century)
Heracles Papyrus (3rd century)
Vergilius Augusteus (4th century)
Vatican Vergil (5th century)
Codex Argentus (6th century)
Book of Durrow (7th century)
Lindisfarne Gospels (8th century)
Lombard book, Switzerland (9th-10th century)
Byzantine book (created prior to 1085)
La Chanson de Roland (1098)
Page from Yingzao Fashi (Song dynasty printing, 1145)
Page from a 12th century edition of the Tale of Genji
Illustration from De Balneis Puteolanis (1220)
Parchment scroll (13th century)
Gesta Danorum parchment page (13th century)
page from the Wigalois (1220-1230)
Codex Runicus (ca 1300)
Sachsenspiegel (1385)
Treasure binding (1339)
Jikji page (1397)
Kiev Psalter (1397)
page from Dante's Inferno (ca 1350-1410)
Reims gospel (14th century)
Tarikhnama (early 14th century)
page from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (ca 1412-1416)
Canterbury Tales (manuscript, early 15th century)
Canterbury Tales, (printed book, 1477)
Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa (the Ash-Shifa) (15th century edition)
page from The House of Phristinus by Simon Marmion (1475)
Profits champetres (1485)
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Historic books[edit]
Shrine of the Book, housing the Dead Sea Scrolls
Gutenberg Bible
Till Eulenspiegel, early popular fiction character (1519)
Augsburg Confession (1531)
King James Bible (1611)
Shakespeare's works (First Folio) (1623)
Bay Psalm Book (1640)
Isaac Newton's Principia
Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan (1651)
John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Encyclopædia Britannica (early edition)
Diccionario de la lengua española (1780)
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1790)
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (1848)
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
Abraham Lincoln inaugural bible
Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (third edition, 1873)
Lewis Carroll's Alices Adventures in Wonderland
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)
Neue Gedichte, Rainer Maria Rilke (1907)
The Wind in the Willows (1913, first printing 1908)
Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore (1912)
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (1913)
the Little Red Songbook (1919)
Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
Mein Kampf (1925), in a US World War II poster
Das Schloß (The Castle), Franz Kafka (1926)
The Hobbit (1937)
Darkness at Noon (1940-1941)
Warren Commission report (1964)
Mao Zedong's Quotations (ca 1960s)
The Whole Earth Catalog (1969)
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Book cover illustration[edit]
Jules Verne cover
The cover of Viktor Rydberg's Fädernas gudasaga
Cover by Christian Wilhelm Allers
Cover by Paul Bacon
cover by Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Cover by Ivan Bilibin
Cover by Sascha Schneider
Larousse Encyclopedia
Book design[edit]
Marbled end papers
End papers (front) (1896)
Book frontispiece (ca 1646)
Half title (1877)
Title page (1852)
Title page with epigraph (1829)
Copyright page (1899)
Dedication page (1494)
Foreword (1900)
Introduction (1921)
Preface (1895)
Opening page (1890s)
Carpet page (9th century)
decorative epigraph
Multiple editions of Frankenstein
ex libris
Historiated initial
Rubrics (red letters)
Decorated Incipit
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Book business[edit]
Early notice for the Frankfurt Book Fair (1573)
Frankfurt Book Fair (2008)
Frontispiece from The Library, by Andrew Lang (about books) (1881)
poster advertising books by L. Frank Baum
Bookshop (1820)
Bookseller, Germany
Book stalls, Paris
Book signing by author
Book signing by author
literary award
Book department, Selfridge's, London (1942)
City Lights Books, San Francisco
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Books in art[edit]
Madonna des Kanonikus Georg van der Paele Jan van Eyck (1439)
1400s painting by Pedro Berruguete showing the Miracle of Fanjeaux
"The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels" ('The Manchester Madonna'), attributed to Michelangelo
Quentin Matsys, "The Moneylender and his Wife" (1514)
Etienne Chevalier with St. Stephen, Jean Fouquet (ca. 1454)
The Story Book, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1877)
Saint Hieronymus (Saint Jerome in his study), Follower of Joos van Cleve (16th or 17th century)
Mother Goose reading fairy tales, Gustave Doré
Saint Jerome (17th century)
Mr Garrick (David Garrick) reciting the Ode in honor of Shakespeare
Plaque commemorating the Nazi book burning of 1933, Römerberg Square in front of Frankfurt city hall, Hesse, Germany
Pariser Büchermarkt (Bouquinistes, Paris), Fritz Westendorp (1911)
Bookplate of American painter and illustrator Edward Penfield (1866-1925)
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Unusual books[edit]
Codex Leicester, Leonard Da Vinci
Jack Warner's address book
Limits to bookbinding
Summit register
Bamboo slip book, China (18th century)
Friedrich Kellner diary
Featured pictures[edit]
From a 15th century Egyptian manuscript
From Cosmographia (1568)
From Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660)
From Cyclopaedia (1728)
Page from "Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790", Antonio de Leon y Gama (1792)
From a 1798 book by John Gabriel Stedman
From Anatomy of the Human Body (1804)
From an illuminated Persian manuscript (1808)
From Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible
Study drawing of the allegorical figure of Romance, taken from the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building, by Kenyon Cox
From Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
From Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (ca 1905 or earlier)
From Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
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