You've heard that the art of living is the art of dying.  This book about longevity confirms it -- note the appendix on the pleasure of making a will.

Here's a design for a book cabinet.  From Le Rire, 1899.

If you can't say, "I lava you," it's not a volcanic romance.  From The Phantom CIty, A Volcanic Romance by William Westall, 1886.

From The Phantom Future by Hugh Stowell Scott, 1897.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.

We love this decription of different types of library books.  From the sublime novel The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.

Seeing the number 7 stuck to Lady Barbarity, we wondered about the "barbarity of luck."  That phrase is a Googlewhack!

The Mysterious Half Cat by Margaret Sutton.  You, too, can be half a cat, if you follow just the first half of How to Be Your Own Cat.

"If you don't mind, I'll read."  From Pearson's, 1909.

When we saw the cover to Model for Murder, we immediately recognized the inspiration: the beloved film Burn, Witch, Burn!  (Book cover courtesy of 54mge.)

Nearly a century before Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, there was this Theory of Dreams, 1808.

A soldier's portable library, from Ulk, 1917.  Related, a WWI "Books Wanted" poster by C. B. Falls, and "They Signal 'Send Books'" by Homer in 1917, both courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts - And Concerning the Vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia by Augustin Calmet, 1759.

Great title: Painted Shadows by Richard Le Gallienne, 1904.

Life: A Romance by three asterisks, 1844.

Adrift on the Black Wild Tide by James Johnson Kane, 1878.

There's an exclamation point on the cover but a question mark on the title page.  What Can She Do[!/?] by Edward Payson Roe, 1873.