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  • Invisible Libraries: a Victorian Contribution July 17, 2010

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Invisible Libraries: a Victorian Contribution

    …done this even more wittily? Any other invisible libraries would be gratefully catalogued by Beachcombing. Please write to drbeachcombingATyahooDOTcom As he was writing this Beachcombing got to thinking about Cervantes…

    Invisible Library in Skyrim March 28, 2012

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite
    Invisible Library in Skyrim

    …try and put their lives back together Beach thought that he would offer up another invisible library: libraries that have only ever existed in the imagination of authors. This time…

    Beachcombing’s Invisible Library February 4, 2012

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
    Beachcombing's Invisible Library

      Beachcombing has had a lot of fun over the last year and a half cataloging invisible libraries, libraries that only exist in the imagination of authors and connoisseurs. Today,…

    The Black Dossier and an Invisible Library January 2, 2013

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite
    The Black Dossier and an Invisible Library

    Invisible Libraries, veterans of this site will know, are libraries that have only ever existed in the human imagination. Previous examples have included: Dickens’ study door, volumes in a computer…

    Beachcombed 26 August 1, 2012

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed
    Beachcombed 26

    …Boar deities?)’ Thanks Invisible! Epitaphs for Children: Two heart-sinkers from Invisible. Olivia Susan Clemens (1866-1890): [Daughter of Mark Twain] Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;/ Warm southern wind, blow softly…

    Invisible Library from Belgium: the Fortsas Catalogue January 9, 2013

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Invisible Library from Belgium: the Fortsas Catalogue

    The Fortsas Catalogue, printed in 1840 has within its pages one of the greatest invisible libraries ever written: an invisible library being a collection of book that have never existed…

    An Invisible Library Among the Fairies September 25, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    An Invisible Library Among the Fairies

    …Pixieland. Welcome to the only invisible fairy library known to this blogger: ‘invisible library’ as old readers of this blog will know being books that have never existed save in…

    A Faun’s Invisible Library December 21, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
    A Faun's Invisible Library

    …vainly to put himself in touch with his inner nurse. As he prepares to dash though he should note once more that he is always interested in Invisible Libraries: drbeachcombing…

    Invisible Library at Reading June 28, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Invisible Library at Reading

    …seen the good naturalist’s bleary eyes opening wide as he stumbled upon Solon’s Geography of America in the early morning light. Any other invisible libraries? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com…

    Thomas Hood or Tom Hood’s Invisible Library June 30, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Thomas Hood or Tom Hood’s Invisible Library

    …the Ring Pul, On Bell’s System Shelley, Conchology Beachcombing is always on the look out for Invisible Libraries – any suggestions would be gratefully received: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com…

    The Nine Unknown – An Invisible Library September 15, 2010

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary
    The Nine Unknown - An Invisible Library

    In Beachcombing’s ergot, ‘invisible libraries’ are books or collections of books that have never existed except in the fantasies of readers. And today he has a cracker. In Louis Pauwels…

    A Hitlerian Invisible Library August 9, 2010

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
    A Hitlerian Invisible Library

    …into pseudo-Wagnerian melody. Beachcombing has no doubt that Stern would have paid him well for his efforts. Beachcombing is always on the look out for invisible libraries, ancient, medieval or…

    11 Burning Libraries: Book Lovers Beware April 29, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
    11 Burning Libraries: Book Lovers Beware

    This blog has pioneered a series of burning libraries: books that didn’t make it (23 to date)… But what about real burning libraries? Libraries that, at some point in Antiquity…

    Invisible Library: Sherlock Holmes’ Publications January 11, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
    Invisible Library: Sherlock Holmes' Publications

    Beach once before ran a post on missing Sherlock Holmes stories in the Invisible Libraries series: books that do not exist save in the imagination. However, he missed a trick….

    Beachcombed 44 February 1, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed
    Beachcombed 44

    …Trek Library: Tacitus from Detritus writes in with a couple of other Sci Fi invisible libraries. Finns, Snow and Magic: Leif and BG has some background to Finns in Norse…