rare finds

It might not be stationery...but it's still beautiful and somewhere in this crazy world, it is on paper. We're talking about the Rare Book Room. For the past ten years, the Octavo Company has been digitally photographing (at very high resolutions) some of the most beautiful and rare books in the world. Some are mostly text and some include illustrations, but all can be zoomed in on and seen in a amazing detail. So even if you can't wing over to Oxford, you can still get your fill of Aesop (pictured above). [via whip up]