Beautiful Books

I wish I could bottle the feeling you get when you carefully open the hard leather cover of an old book. You hold your breath as you prepare for the beautiful smell of years gone by and the love of previous owners. If you're lucky enough, you may even open the book to a precious message written inside...

A stack of beautiful books, gifted from a friend

For Pamela Piesse, From John Marefield. Dec 3rd 1934

To my friend Aubrey, who upon attaining his fourteenth
birthday, Hath now reached "Man's Estate".
From Miss Showell 23-9-23

Mandi, with best wishes, 10th March 1905