I love old, really old, books

This is one of my most favourite books. It is tatty, huge, a Greek/French dictionary which is pretty useless to me, lol, but just look at it! The front and back covers are so beautifully distressed, which makes for fabulous background images, and the pages have acquired such a delicious rich cream colour and foxing. I bought it to take apart and use the pages in my ephemera packs but I can't bring myself to do it -

Looking inside the spine -

Toodlepip xxx