Botanical studies in watercolour (with the months of flowering) by J. Eudes (1856-1938). Plate from ‘Les Fleurs de Jardins‘ (Les Fleurs de Printemps) published by Paul Lechevalier (1929).
Chained library in Hereford. Chaining books was the most widespread and effective security system in European libraries from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. 1611