03/05/2021
This 132-year-old book has been around longer than any human alive! When it was printed, there were no radios or airplanes, and almost all Americans still lit their homes with candles and gas. 🕯
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Two things I love about this book are:
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🖋 1. Its mysterious inscription. Written in an elegant script on the inside of the cover is “Hoogstraat 1887”. The book, though, says “copyright 1889”. So how could Hoogstraat have written an inscription in 1887?
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🌿 2. The plants that someone over the last century and a half decided to press within its pages. My favorite is the four-leaf clover!
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This book, and dozens of other treasures, are available at basilandgold.com! Link in bio.
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