fantastic scans from old books and a congeries* of what is referred to as “visual materia obscura“.
quite a stunning site.
(via the indomitable storyglot.
similarly quarried (our verb of the day), I’ve since taken note, by the irrepressible lifeinapanel.
great minds.)
*from the OED: congeries, A collection of things merely massed or heaped together; a mass, heap.
