Hello, 2010!

Here’s to another year – and decade – of great reading experiences.

Photo from The Private Library

Gorgeous Old Book Illustration of the Day

This marvelous watercolor is from a mid-19th Century French-language book advertised for sale by Joslin Hall Rare Books, a Northampton, Massachusetts bookseller whose website is replete with visual treats like this.

Click on the “Bibliofestoonery” tab at the top of this page for portals to other sources of “eye candy” for booklovers.

And please let us know of other websites we need to add to those links by clicking on the “Leave a Comment” link at the bottom of this blogpost.

Gorgeous Illustrations from Old Books

The New York Public Library is among the throngs of institutions who are busily digitizing the innards of their antique books.

Now you don’t have to travel to New York to peer into these wonderful tomes!

We’ve just added a link to this website to the others we’ve assembled at Bibliofestoonery (one of the tabs at the top of this blog).

After poking around among the images (in over 3,700 categories!) available at NYPL, click on the “Leave a Comment” link below to let us know of other online treasure troves of beautiful book images you’ve discovered in your travels around the Internet, and we’ll promtply add them to Bibliofestoonery.

Found via the Librarians’ Internet Index