Felix John Taylor
@felixjrt.bsky.social
Writer, librarian by day. Literary history of the Golden Dawn (the 1890s occultists, not the Greek fascists) out March.
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A month ago today! Still standing
August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A month ago today! Still standing
It's half nine in the evening, fool, quit trying to index a whole book
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It's half nine in the evening, fool, quit trying to index a whole book
A highlight: the cavernous basement of the Strand bookshop in NYC!
July 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A highlight: the cavernous basement of the Strand bookshop in NYC!
I was in New York for the first time last week, my neck hurts
July 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I was in New York for the first time last week, my neck hurts
Processing some interesting stuff today, this issue of Astounding Science Fiction from 1950 - contains one of Sprague de Camp's anthropological essays, and a discerning fan letter from a 20-year-old Lin carter
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Processing some interesting stuff today, this issue of Astounding Science Fiction from 1950 - contains one of Sprague de Camp's anthropological essays, and a discerning fan letter from a 20-year-old Lin carter
Arthur Machen owned a pet bulldog during the 1890s called Juggernaut (or 'Jug' or sometimes 'Juggy').When he entered a room he would take the best seat by the fire 'with many groans and grunts of joy'. But who looked after him when Machen went off on his acting tours?? The true mystery.
June 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Arthur Machen owned a pet bulldog during the 1890s called Juggernaut (or 'Jug' or sometimes 'Juggy').When he entered a room he would take the best seat by the fire 'with many groans and grunts of joy'. But who looked after him when Machen went off on his acting tours?? The true mystery.
Owl by (I think) Claud Lovat Fraser, 1921
June 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Owl by (I think) Claud Lovat Fraser, 1921
Victor Hugo, 'Planet-Eye' (c. 1854)
June 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Victor Hugo, 'Planet-Eye' (c. 1854)
Entry for the most niche (and least exciting) work by Arthur Machen, probably written in order to get the editor off his back:
May 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Entry for the most niche (and least exciting) work by Arthur Machen, probably written in order to get the editor off his back:
Shabby books by Walter Pater - George Moore called Marius the Epicurean the most beautiful book in English, but Pater himself was 'one of those ugly uncouth figures one meets at the end of terraces'
May 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Shabby books by Walter Pater - George Moore called Marius the Epicurean the most beautiful book in English, but Pater himself was 'one of those ugly uncouth figures one meets at the end of terraces'
My cycle home yesterday:
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
My cycle home yesterday:
A spot of grave hunting the other day required a map:
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 PM
A spot of grave hunting the other day required a map:
Photos from a bookbinding course I took this weekend: nice and easy when it's just folding and sewing, but the swearing starts when the glue's brought out
October 30, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Photos from a bookbinding course I took this weekend: nice and easy when it's just folding and sewing, but the swearing starts when the glue's brought out
Mush from the park
October 4, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Mush from the park
Ducks & Their Allies:
September 25, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Ducks & Their Allies:
The kinds of books that want to be rotting into mulch outside somewhere:
September 22, 2023 at 4:57 PM
The kinds of books that want to be rotting into mulch outside somewhere:
Just spent an hour shunting these 'elephant' sized tomes around (technical term). Muscles are now string
September 19, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Just spent an hour shunting these 'elephant' sized tomes around (technical term). Muscles are now string
View of the Eildon Hills, from where we stayed in Melrose. Arthur is somewhere underneath all that.
September 15, 2023 at 4:12 PM
View of the Eildon Hills, from where we stayed in Melrose. Arthur is somewhere underneath all that.
Think kindly today of the British, for we do not know this heat
September 8, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Think kindly today of the British, for we do not know this heat
Illustration from 1923 of Prof. Durig of Vienna, measuring the effects of alcohol on his respiration while climbing up mountains
September 7, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Illustration from 1923 of Prof. Durig of Vienna, measuring the effects of alcohol on his respiration while climbing up mountains
Young parasols?
September 6, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Young parasols?
An earthball the size of a plum
September 3, 2023 at 2:11 PM
An earthball the size of a plum
W. B. Yeats edited 3 vols. of Blake's works with E. J. Ellis in 1893. I can't think of any better editions (though obv the scholarship's moved on a bit since then, and the prints are b&w)
September 1, 2023 at 2:14 PM
W. B. Yeats edited 3 vols. of Blake's works with E. J. Ellis in 1893. I can't think of any better editions (though obv the scholarship's moved on a bit since then, and the prints are b&w)