A library of books that have outlived their first readers.
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Steam train recording: “Wales Steam Train” by jrosin, Freesound. Stained Glass Lamp model © 2021 Wayfair LLC, by Eric Chadwick, CC BY 4.0, via the Khronos glTF Sample Assets.
Furniture and materials from Poly Haven; railway hardware, footsteps and impact sounds from Kenney (CC0). Further sound effects from Pixabay and Mixkit. Nanteuil’s 1834 etching courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain). Period plates by Alphonse de Neuville, Sidney Paget and Thomas Wright, and Haggard’s map, from Project Gutenberg’s illustrated editions. Typefaces: IM Fell English SC and Cormorant Garamond (SIL Open Font License). Books from Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, Standard Ebooks and the Internet Archive.
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