"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
My life won’t be complete until I myself have a 19th century copy of Emerson!
THIS.
I found a copy of “The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” that’s 100+ years old in an antique shop in Barcelona....
I also collect old books. My most prized one is a leather bound copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare I got...
OH FRICK am I jealous of this. I love Emerson’s writings so much. I think the librarian silently judges me when I check...
holy. shit. want.
I adore old books too. One of the highlights of studying history wa sgetting access to all these old books. I always...
I have a 1920 (the year it was first printed!) copy of The Age of Innocence :) I love it and it is kept very safe.
For ten euros, I got a copy of the Iliad in Italian from the eighteen hundreds with handwritten notes in Italian from...
I have an anthology of American poetry from 1872 that I talked down to $10.
Yep. I mean, I don’t have anything of Emerson (I think?) but I love collecting old books.
So jealous of this person right now.
I’ve not the Emerson, but I have an undated copy of Origin of Species (old I know, it was type set. You can feel the...