Unknown, unfortunately. I would like to know if this book cover is recognized

demi-mon-daine: It’s a beautiful cover - thank you for submitting it! It is a copy of Jane Eyre, with the cover illustration and engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Per this Allison Morris post at Publisher’s Weekly, it was published by Random House in 1943.

There are several images of the illustrations at the link above, including this beauty:

Goethe’s Faust. The Lansdowne poets edition. 

Translated by Bayard Taylor.

Printed between 1880-1890.

A 120 year old gilded pages, hardback edition of Goethe’s masterpiece.

An Art Nouveau Publisher’s binding (Snow White, 1900) | submitted by cavesoflilith

An imposing American binding in near-mint condition, 1881

(submitted by cavesoflilith)

Ouroboros Press | submitted by cavesoflilith

The Codex Gigas is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. It is thought to have been created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). During the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, the entire collection was stolen by the Swedish army as plunder and now it is preserved at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. It is also known as the  (modern Devil’s Bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation.

According to legend the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive. In order to forbear this harsh penalty he promised to create in one single night a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight he became sure that he could not complete this task alone, so he made a special prayer, not addressed to God but to the fallen archangel Satan, asking him to help him finish the book in exchange for his soul. The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil’s picture out of gratitude for his aid. [read on..]

(submitted by cavesoflilith)