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LoModeltini @lomodeltini.bsky.social · Mar 24

#EsotericBookChallenge:
A book per day, in no particular order until you've shared ALL the best occult books in your personal library, 🚫 explanations, 🚫 reviews just covers!

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“History of the Gothic Revival”

An attempt to show how the Taste for Mediaeval Architecture which lingered in England during the two last centuries has since been Encouraged and Developed. By Eastlake,C.L.

Publication Date: 1872

Publisher: London; Longmans Green and Co.

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Loved

Edition: 1st

xvi, 428 printed pages. At one point this text was in the Cambridge library as seen in photos. Frontispiece, 35 plates, 12 text figures. Original elaborate binding in light tan cloth over bevelled boards. Spine blind stamped with gilt lettering and double gilt horizontal rules. Vertical split and wear to head and tail. Upper cover with gilt stamped trefoil crowned female figure and gilt gothic lettering within gilt ruled and scroliate blind stamped border. Identical lower cover but with no gilt. Corners worn, bumped and frayed. The text block is fragile and split, still just holding in one piece but in a traumatised state.

Charles Locke Eastlake (1833-1906), an interior, furniture and industrial designer, showed talent as an architect and was awarded a Silver Medal in 1854 by the Royal Academy. He is known for influencing the style of later nineteenth-century 'Modern' Gothic furniture with his Hints on Household Taste (1868), but his passion for medieval architecture developed much earlier while he was in Europe during the 1850s. In 1866 he became Secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and it was in 1872 that this work was published.

The book is notable for being released at the height of the Gothic Revival movement in the later nineteenth century. It includes detailed comments on the architects, societies, literature and buildings that formed the cornerstones of the Gothic Revival, primarily in Britain, from around 1650 to 1870. A valuable mine of information, it remains a key source on the topic.

March 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM

Man on a spiritual journey.

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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

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„21 Days into the Afterlife“ by Piero Calvi-Parisetti

January 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM

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A reminder for those doing the #EsotericBookChallenge, please use ALT text so the visually impaired can know what the books are too. #Witchsky

January 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Man on a spiritual journey.

@spirituelle-reise.bsky.social

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

#Books
#Esoteric
#Occult
#esotericbookchallenge
#Witchsky