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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org/statuses/114381584076146035">Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 04:39:55 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" title="gutenberg_org@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/132842-48-20230813103534.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Project Gutenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Project Gutenberg</a></section><article><p>Medieval Manuscript Featuring Legends Of Merlin And King Arthur Found Languishing In Pieces In A British Library</p><p><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/cambridge-suite-vulgate-du-merlin" rel="nofollow">https://allthatsinteresting.com/cambridge-suite-vulgate-du-merlin</a></p><p>King Arthur at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2433" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2433</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" rel="tag">#science</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4935589#notice-9670254">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-23T04:39:55+09:00" title="Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 04:39:55 JST">about 22 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114381584076146035" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114381584076146035">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4508345">The Passing of King Arthur by Julia Margaret Cameron"In 1874 Tennyson asked Cameron to make photographic illustrations for a new edition of his Idylls of the Kings, a recasting of the Arthurian legends. Responding that both knew that “it is immortality to me to be bound up with you,” Cameron willingly accepted the assignment. Costuming family and friends, she made some 245 exposures to arrive at the handful she wanted for the book. Ultimately—and predictably—she was unhappy with the way her photographs looked reduced in scale and translated into wood engravings, and she chose to issue a deluxe edition, at her own risk, that included a dozen full size photographic prints in each of two volumes." - from Internet Archive</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/381/576/901/329/885/original/feace87cddfd3206.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/381/576/901/329/885/original/feace87cddfd3206.jpg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. The Passing of King Arthur by Julia Margaret Cameron "In 1874 Tennyson asked Cameron to make photographic illustrations for a new edition of his Idylls of the Kings, a recasting of the Arthurian legends. Responding that both knew that “it is immortality to me to be bound up with you,” Cameron willingly accepted the assignment. Costuming family and friends, she made some 245 exposures to arrive at the handful she wanted for the book. Ultimately—and predictably—she was unhappy with the way her photographs looked reduced in scale and translated into wood engravings, and she chose to issue a deluxe edition, at her own risk, that included a dozen full size photographic prints in each of two volumes." - from Internet Archive
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