The White Countess

Ralph Fiennes

Here's a really beautiful publisher's binding on a 1902 edition of Fairyland of Science. The end paper with a Pegasus and the title page were definitely worth sharing too. This book was written by Arabella Buckley for a young audience to learn about science through imagination and story telling.

The fairyland of science, 1902. by Arabella B. Buckley.

Ralph Fiennes in Maid in Manhattan

May 12th is International Nurses Day!

We have a few nursing materials in our collections such as Chemistry for Nurses (1914), pictured above, and Applied Chemistry for Nurses (1926).

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”

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The English Patient — Almàsy + landscapes

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes interview: 'Cinema reduces love to cliché' - Telegraph

Ralph Fiennes, the director and star of The Invisible Woman, on Hollywood, tabloid gossip, and Charles Dickens’s complicated romantic life