Mar 22, 2017
Look at this amazing fore-edge painting on the 1762 edition of A new version of the Psalms of David! #bmcspeccoll #foreedge
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Look at this amazing fore-edge painting on the 1762 edition of A new version of the Psalms of David! #bmcspeccoll #foreedge
Esther Scroll by Aaron Wolf ben Benjamin Zeev Schreiber Herlingen of Gewitsch. Vienna or Pressburg. ca. 1735. This scroll contains the entire text of the Book of Esther. It is an example of 18th-century fashion for illustrated megillot among Ashkenazi communities, including scrolls produced by the scribe-artists of the so-called "Moravia School" of Hebrew illumination. The tradition of tiny writing arose from the micrographic illustration of biblical texts and the copying of verses for mezuzot and tefillin. The calligrapher, Aaron Wolf Herlingen, was a prolific artist who worked as a scribe in multiple languages in the Imperial Library in Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth century. Gift of Louis E. Levinthal to the Bryn Mawr College Library.
How not to behave at the mall. From A Visit to the Bazaar, J. Harris, 1818., the chapter on the Gun Smith. The chapters on the Jeweller, Linen Draper, Toy Shop. Pastry Cook, Optician, and Bookseller are far more benign.
Look at this amazing fore-edge painting on the 1762 edition of A new version of the Psalms of David! #bmcspeccoll #foreedge
We found, to our astonishment, that there was no copy of A Visit from St. Nicholas with the classic illustrations by Thomas Nash on the Internet Archive. We have uploaded a scan from the copy, c. 1874, in the Ellery Yale Wood collection of Children’s Books and Young Adult Literature. (Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. Visit of St. Nicholas. Nast, Thomas; 1840-1902, illustrator. New York: McLoughlin Bros. New-York, c.1871-1874. Aunt Louisa's Big Picture series).
Read it at https://archive.org/details/VisitOfStNicholasCirca1874
Enjoy – and Happy Holidays!
From Hoffmann, Heinrich. The English Struwwelpeter: Or, Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children. Frankfurt: Literarisch Anstalt Rütten & Loening, c1870 (Twenty-fourth Edition).
Recently added to our collection of cookbooks, etiquette guides, and housekeeping manuals is a 1911 first edition of Fannie Merritt Farmer’s Catering for Special Occasions with Menus & Recipes (Philadelphia: David McKay). On pages enlivened by illustrations of a series of disturbingly carnivorous cherubs, Farmer suggested two menus for Thanksgiving. The selection of dishes included creamed corn and tomato soup topped with popcorn, oyster soup, celery with caviar, flaming sweet potatoes, turnip croquettes, squash souffle, chicken pie (in addition to the turkey!), chiffonade-dressed lettuce, cranberry sherbet, cream-cheese stuffed dates, vanilla ice cream, jelly roll, pumpkin pie, and mincemeat pie.
Feeling tempted to try something new? Here is the entire Thanksgiving chapter of the book – FannyFarmers1911Thanksgiving2
Bon appétit!
Hooray for Guy Fawkes Night! From Leigh, Felix, Thomas Crane, and Ellen Elizabeth Houghton. London Town. London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1883. Part of the Ellery Yale Wood Collection of Children’s Books and Young Adult Literature at Bryn Mawr College.