“Language of the Birds,” an installation using LED-lighted books located at Columbus and Broadway in North Beach, San Francisco.

Via.

Benito Mussolini’s bookplates, via Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie.

From L’Assiette au Beurre by Gustave Henri Jossot, 1904. Via BibliOdyssey.

Edgar Allan Poe’s bookplate; designer is unknown. To see the bookplates of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, visit today’s Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie post.

Book amphitheatre, via Balla Dora Typo-Grafika.

Biografias - Buechersturz installation at the Offenes Kulturhaus in Linz, Austria. Via Bibliophile Bullpen.

“Dance with Me” and other book sculptures by Mike Stilkey; discovered via today’s Dark Roasted Blend post on book art, which includes some pieces I have previously featured here.

Book mobile by theshophouse.  Via Apartment Therapy.

From Pan’s Labyrinth Sketchbook; notes and sketches by Guillermo del Toro.

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie posted a collection of doctors’ bookplates today. This is from one Doctor Dolley, who was a thoracic surgeon, as you’d expect, and indeed the president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, in 1943.

From Codex Manesse, featuring one Herzog Heinrich von Breslau.  Via BibliOdyssey.

beautifulanddepraved:

Brian Dettmer:  Book Autopsies (via baikuken)

Earth and Sky, by Gennadiy Vasilyevich Pavlov, via BibliOdyssey.

Via Flickr.

Classiques

De Baudelaire au Surréalisme

Le Mariage Parfait

La Terre

All works by Georgia Russell, via England & Co. See also: Previous.