I have a few extremely old antique books I found while cleaning out my grandmother’s house following her death. All from the 1920s, they are small identification guides, one for birds, one for trees, one for flowers, and a fourth I’m not remembering right now. They are in rough shape but still holding together. The bird book especially has amazingly detailed full color artist made images throughout. I have no idea if they have any value, but there’s something cool about the level of craft and care that seems to have gone into them, the images seem impressive to me considering their age. Maybe it’s less impressive than I think, I don’t actually know how publishing worked back then, but they’re cool to me.

While I’ve never read it, I went down a goodreads rabbit hole reading reviews of modelland, and it was a fascinating experience.