penllawen: A series of mysterious sculptures,...

A series of mysterious sculptures, painstakingly constructed from hardback books, have been appearing all over the Edinburgh literary community — at libraries and bookshops and the like.

The tag on this one reads:

To @edincityoflit ‘A gift’ LOST (albeit in a good book) This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas… “No infant has the power of deciding… by what circumstances (they) shall be surrounded.” Robert Owen

It is made from a copy of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.

There’s pictures of the rest at thisiscentralstation.com. You absolutely must click that link — these are incredible, and for them to have been anonymously donated like this is just lovely. The feathers on the Wren’s Wing and the T. Rex bursting from the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World are my favourites.

Wow. These are truly great works of art.

Do yourselves a favor and click through to check out all of them. The detail in these pieces is jaw dropping.