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Book Cover of the Day:

🖼️ Rosa Bonheur

🖼️ Rosa Bonheur.

King of the Forest, Rosa Bonheur, 1878.

Morning. Study of Birds and Tree, Rosa Bonheur.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Igor Handozhko

From Garden Flowers, John Leigh-Pemberton, 1960.

From Butterflies and Moths, John Leigh-Pemberton, 1965.

John Leigh-Pemberton, from The Shell Guide to Wildlife, 1959.

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Book Cover of the Day:

Life in the Meadow, John Leigh-Pemberton from Shell Guide to Wildlife, 1959.

Greenfinches, John Leigh-Pemberton from Garden Birds, 1967.

Morning. 🖼️ Song Thrush, John Leigh-Pemberton from Song Birds, 1974.

We consider ourselves most enlightened and bid you goodnight from #BookWormSat 🖼️ The Foursome, Antoine Watteau, c.1713.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Astronomical Observations: the Moon, Donato Creti, 1711.

'I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.' -Mary Wollstonecraft 🎨Francisco de Zurbarán #BookWormSat

‘Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.’ ~ Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Lady Reading in an Interior, 1775.

Some amazing work being done on ABCtales.com at the moment!

Two Carnations, French Marigold, Spanish Broom, Double Stock, Borage and Marguerite, Robert, Nicolas.

Bumblebee, Bruno Ertz, 1908.

Siamese Cat On A Branch Of Apple Blossom, Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe. #Caturday

Badgers, Tunnicliffe.

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Book Cover of the Day:

Sitting Hare, Tunnicliffe, 1949.

‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.’ ~ Rousseau And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for an enlightening #BookWormSat

‘I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature…’~ Rousseau for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Blackbird Sunbathing, Tunnicliffe.

'The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.' -Voltaire @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! :-) 🎨Albert Aublet

Curlew, Tunnicliffe.

Afternoon. 🖼️ Cob, Tunnicliffe

I've been telling you all about the new novel featuring my Undertakers, Josiah and Archibald (mybook.to/DRKindle) but I thought you might like to hear their first ever story brought to life by the wonderful people at Yorick Radio :-) open.spotify.com/episode/5l1f... @abctales.bsky.social

Tense, excellent writing, Snake Eyes May Cry by helix888 is our Pick of the Day. Do read and share. www.abctales.com/story/helix8...

Morning. 🖼️ Zou Chuan an

‘I found that there is in the meditation of honest thoughts a sort of well-being that the wicked have never known; it is to enjoy being alone with oneself.’ ~ Rousseau This #BookWormSat marks Rousseau’s birthday with the literature of the Enlightenment. Do join us.