{"title":"The Rare Book Tee Collection","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery design here starts on paper centuries older than the shirt. We pull illustrations, mottos, and marginalia straight from the antiquarian books that pass through our hands: a 1728 \u003cem\u003eBibliothèque bleue\u003c\/em\u003e chapbook, a 1574 Bolognese emblem book, whatever turns up next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThese are small runs, made to order, drawn from real books we've catalogued, sold, or kept for ourselves. If you'd rather read the source material than wear it, you'll usually find it in the shop too.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dance-like-death-is-watching","title":"Dance Like Death Is Watching Tee","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1485, Guyot Marchant copied verses painted on the walls of a Parisian cemetery and printed them as the first \u003cem\u003eDanse Macabre\u003c\/em\u003e - Death leading pope and pauper alike toward the same grave, a reminder that rank buys no exemption. By the eighteenth century the image had trickled down into the \u003cem\u003eBibliothèque bleue\u003c\/em\u003e, the cheap woodcut chapbooks hawked door to door across France, among them a 1728 Troyes edition illustrated with four skeleton musicians on its title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis shirt borrows that page. Four skeletons, their instruments, and a phrase that's been true since 1485: \u003cem\u003eDance like Death is watching\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePrinted on a soft, lightweight Bella+Canvas tee, 100% cotton, made in USA or imported.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"White \/ S","offer_id":49310155276523,"sku":"7689550","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"White \/ M","offer_id":49310155309291,"sku":"3475700","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ L","offer_id":49310155342059,"sku":"3477745","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ XL","offer_id":49310155374827,"sku":"9603169","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ 2XL","offer_id":49310155407595,"sku":"5745995","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ S","offer_id":49310265966827,"sku":"7164584","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ M","offer_id":49310265999595,"sku":"2603839","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ L","offer_id":49310266032363,"sku":"8134706","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black \/ XL","offer_id":49310266065131,"sku":"5290451","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ 2XL","offer_id":49310266097899,"sku":"1718186","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/unisex-staple-t-shirt-white-front-6a94d177c869c.png?v=1788137886"},{"product_id":"armadilho","title":"Francesco Redi 1685 Armadillo Tee","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDrawn from Redi’s pioneering natural-history studies on exotic specimens brought from the Indies, this engraving captures the 17th century’s wonder at the meeting of art and observation.\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on deep forest cotton, it’s both naturalist chic and baroque curiosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePrinted on a soft, lightweight Bella+Canvas tee, 100% cotton, made in USA or imported.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Heather Emerald Green \/ S","offer_id":49319704821995,"sku":"7689550","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Emerald Green \/ M","offer_id":49319726645483,"sku":"9578068","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Heather Emerald Green \/ L","offer_id":49319726678251,"sku":"4541439","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Emerald Green \/ XL","offer_id":49319726711019,"sku":"5605126","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Emerald Green \/ 2XL","offer_id":49319726743787,"sku":"4166643","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/unisex-staple-t-shirt-heather-emerald-front-6a94c2cba3d9a.png?v=1788134126"},{"product_id":"victoria-ex-labore-tee","title":"Victoria Ex Labore Oversized Tee","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1574, Bologna's Società Tipografica reissued Achille Bocchi's \u003cem\u003eSymbolicarum Quaestionum de Universo Genere,\u003c\/em\u003e a title that argues its own case: \u003cem\u003equas serio ludebat\u003c\/em\u003e, \"which he played seriously.\" Erasmus had his \u003cem\u003eAdagia\u003c\/em\u003e, Alciati his \u003cem\u003eEmblemata\u003c\/em\u003e of 1531; Bocchi, a Bolognese humanist and founder of his own academy, spent 151 emblems doing something similar: treating image and symbol as vehicles for theology, philosophy, and moral instruction, never mere decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis one belongs to his emblems on governance and conduct: an ox skull, crowned in laurel, under a motto that needs no footnote: \u003cem\u003eVictoria ex labore honesta, et vtilis\u003c\/em\u003e. Victory earned through labor is honorable, and worth having. 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