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A Fun Time With Knowledge. This book sculpture features very detailed skeleton sculptures and old school music player, but what made this sculpture really special is the fact that nobody knows who created it – the artwork was delivered to a library or certain event secretly. (Image Source:chrisdonia)

Plant of Appreciation. Another secretly delivered book sculpture with aggressive details. Next to the tree sits a paper egg lined with gold and quoted parts from the poem “A Trace of Wings” by Edwin Morgan. (Image Source: chrisdonia)

Teabreak. A sculpture with beauty and elegance crafted in. It was found at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with the tag, reading “To @edbookfest ‘A gift’ This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas… & festivals. XX” Really mysterious, huh? (Image Source: chrisdonia)

Dairy Nets & Soda. You can’t deny that this sculpture is epic. Brian Dettmer takes a thick book and transformed it into an extremely impressive book sculpture, and what’s unbelievable is, he didn’t add anything extra to form the sculpture! (Image Source: Brian Dettmer)

Mound 2. By just removing what was there in the first place, a boring, abandoned book can even be turned into something fantastic and remarkable. Hat tip to the creator. (Image Source: Brian Dettmer)

Tab. Brian Dettmer is not only good at sculpting one book, as this sculpture composed by several books will prove to you. (Image Source: Brian Dettmer)

The Household Physicians. As the name of the book implies, all the colorful anatomy images came from the book itself – the sculptor just removed certain parts of the book to reveal the gems inside. Genius. (Image Source: Brian Dettmer)

Anthologia. Doubtless to say, Jacqueline Rush Lee’s book sculptures are one of the most unique in the industry, and a lot of hard work was put in to make them. For this one, it was hand-painted, sanded, inked, and completed with bookmarks and archival glue. (Image Source: Jacqueline Rush Lee)

Unfurled. Extremely eye-pleasing colors. The form is quite abstract, but you can feel like it’s a real creature that exists in our world! (Image Source: Jacqueline Rush Lee)

Flutter. Splendid colors, dynamic lines, great expression. Truly a genuine product of art. (Image Source: Jacqueline Rush Lee)

Lorem Ipsum II. What would you perceive this as? I never knew that the combination of books can form such a lively “creature”! (Image Source: Jacqueline Rush Lee)

Grand Larousse. Guy Laramee has his own passion on the art of book sculpting. His book sculptures consist mostly of landscapes, and this sculpture is just one of his greatest products of passion. (Image Source: Guy Laramee)

Longmen. Form an epic geographical existence with just 9 Longmen books, seriously? And this sculptor has just done that. (Image Source: Guy Laramee)