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Photographs

All photographs are dedicated to the public domain (CC0) on Wikimedia Commons. CC0 asks for no credit; we give it anyway.

• Antique books and encyclopedias

  Annie Spratt · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• The John Rylands Library Reading Room Enclosure

  Michael D Beckwith · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• Harewood House, The Old Library

  Michael D Beckwith · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• Antique book page turning

  Pics_Pd · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• Opened book lying on stone ledge

  Mabel Amber · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• Old books

  Eli Francis · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

• The Portico Library Reading Room

  Michael D Beckwith · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Book covers

Real covers appear only where the image is free to use. Every other book shows a NOESIS library plate; we do not reproduce publishers’ cover artwork.

• Above Life's Turmoil

  Title page of the L. N. Fowler & Co. edition (London) · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source

• As a Man Thinketh

  Title page of the Thomas Y. Crowell “Authorized Edition” (New York) · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source

• Confessions

  Cover of the Project Gutenberg edition (eBook #3296) · Public domain · source

• Enchiridion

  Cover of the Project Gutenberg edition (eBook #45109) · Public domain · source

• Essays: First Series

  Title page of the first edition (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841) · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source

• Meditations

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• Nature

  Cover of an 1836 first edition (Boston: James Munroe and Company), Bancroft Library copy · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source

• Notes from Underground

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• Tao Te Ching

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Consolation of Philosophy

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Crowd

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

  Title page of the Robert M. McBride & Co. printing (New York, 1920) · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source

• The Game of Life and How to Play It

  Cover of the edition transcribed by Project Gutenberg (eBook #74878) · Public domain · source

• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Odyssey

  Cover of the Project Gutenberg edition (eBook #1727) · Public domain · source

• The Prophet

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Republic

  Cover of the Project Gutenberg edition (eBook #1497) · Public domain · source

• The Science of Getting Rich

  Cover of the edition transcribed by Project Gutenberg (eBook #59844) · Public domain · source

• The Souls of Black Folk

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• The Varieties of Religious Experience

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

• Walden

  Standard Ebooks edition cover · CC0 public domain dedication · source

Typefaces

• Libre Caslon Display & Libre Caslon Text — Impallari Type, SIL Open Font License
• Jost — indestructible type*, SIL Open Font License
• GFS Didot — Greek Font Society, SIL Open Font License

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