Showing posts with label Octavo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Octavo. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Rare Book Room




For all those designers, calligraphers, artists and book lovers out there.  Visit the Rare Book Room. A company called “Octavo” has digitally photographed some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. Shown here is a spread from The Book of Hours, Horae Beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum, 1524.