u/perryburdfield

I grew up loving old-school 90s fantasy RPGs - the kind where you’d spend hours wandering quiet villages, listening to beautiful music, exploring forgotten ruins, and just existing in the world after you’d finished the main quest.

I wanted to capture that feeling, so I created Saint Dante: Fables -a “lost” 16-bit RPG that never actually existed. It’s an ambient video presented as if it were running on a fictional 90s console, complete with a title screen, retro UI, and slow, nostalgic pacing.

It’s less about combat and more about the feeling those old games gave me - the sense of adventure, mystery, and peace.

If you grew up with SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, or other classic fantasy RPGs, I’d genuinely love to know if it captures that feeling.

https://youtu.be/WgDD6h6RaBg?is=8EX-03PfLRhEzWNn

Thanks for taking a look!

Rome: Ex Chalcographia R.C.A., 1741. Edited by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari. Engravings after Pietro Santi Bartoli.

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An extraordinary copy of the first great printed reproduction of the Vatican Virgil (Vat. lat. 3225), issued in Rome in 1741 under the direct patronage of Pope Benedict XIV. This folio unites fifty-eight copperplate vignettes after the miniatures of antiquity’s most important Virgilian manuscript with a learned commentary by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, published through the Vatican’s own press, the Chalcographia Cameralis.

The book bears the dignity of an official papal dedication and imprimatur, elevating it beyond a mere scholarly edition to a statement of cultural authority by the Holy See. Its engraved architectural title page, framed by genii and the lion, proclaims the work’s dual identity as both monument and manuscript facsimile - a tangible link between the late Roman Empire and the eighteenth-century Vatican.

This particular copy rises above the ordinary market example. The copperplate strikes are dark, clean, and sharp - evidence of an early pull - preserving Bartoli’s line-work in vivid detail. The text and plates retain wide margins and a remarkable freshness for their age. Bound in contemporary eighteenth-century half calf with marbled boards, the book remains in honest, unrestored condition, carrying the patina of time without loss of integrity.

Most significantly, this is a copy of provenance and pedigree. It bears the armorial bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872–1943), scion of one of England’s most distinguished aristocratic families. The Fitzwilliams’ library at Wentworth Woodhouse was among the greatest private collections in Europe, a symbol of aristocratic learning and connoisseurship. To hold this book is to inherit both Vatican sanction and English aristocratic tradition; an unbroken chain of cultural guardianship.

Rome: Ex Chalcographia R.C.A., 1741. Edited by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari. Engravings after Pietro Santi Bartoli.

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An extraordinary copy of the first great printed reproduction of the Vatican Virgil (Vat. lat. 3225), issued in Rome in 1741 under the direct patronage of Pope Benedict XIV. This folio unites fifty-eight copperplate vignettes after the miniatures of antiquity’s most important Virgilian manuscript with a learned commentary by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, published through the Vatican’s own press, the Chalcographia Cameralis.

The book bears the dignity of an official papal dedication and imprimatur, elevating it beyond a mere scholarly edition to a statement of cultural authority by the Holy See. Its engraved architectural title page, framed by genii and the lion, proclaims the work’s dual identity as both monument and manuscript facsimile - a tangible link between the late Roman Empire and the eighteenth-century Vatican.

This particular copy rises above the ordinary market example. The copperplate strikes are dark, clean, and sharp - evidence of an early pull - preserving Bartoli’s line-work in vivid detail. The text and plates retain wide margins and a remarkable freshness for their age. Bound in contemporary eighteenth-century half calf with marbled boards, the book remains in honest, unrestored condition, carrying the patina of time without loss of integrity.

Most significantly, this is a copy of provenance and pedigree. It bears the armorial bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872–1943), scion of one of England’s most distinguished aristocratic families. The Fitzwilliams’ library at Wentworth Woodhouse was among the greatest private collections in Europe, a symbol of aristocratic learning and connoisseurship. To hold this book is to inherit both Vatican sanction and English aristocratic tradition; an unbroken chain of cultural guardianship.

Hi all,

Just wanted to get some advice. I’ve picked these books for next to nothing and I understand they’re quite popular works? The 1631 Thomas North Plutarch is complete and has been rebound in an early Victorian leather bound. The 1613 Monatigne is missing its title page, and the remainder of chapters 11-13 from book three. This is also re-bound in a beautiful leather backing.

I have no clue what they’re worth

Hi all,

Just wanted to get some advice. I’ve picked these books for next to nothing and I understand they’re quite popular works? The 1631 Thomas North Plutarch is complete and has been rebound in an early Victorian leather bound. The 1613 Monatigne is missing its title page, and the remainder of chapters 11-13 from book three. This is also re-bound in a beautiful leather backing.

What would you guys value these at?