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#MarbledMonday: Here are some more marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Rare Z271 .W621 1987

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Happy birthday to Charlotte Brontë! The Brontë siblings liked to produce miniature magazines for Branwell's toy soldiers, which may have led Charlotte to later write "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" in this tiny script on eight small sheets of paper. Many years later, the Miniature Book Society published "The Scale of Genius," which describes these little books and is bound in a facsimile of "The Secret." As you can see from the first picture, the text is almost exactly the same size in both!

The Scale of Genius: PR4169 .H37 2019

The Secret and Lily Hart: PR4167 .S43 1833

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#MarbledMonday: And, to round out June, here is a last set of marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Rare Z271 .W621 1987

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#MarbledMonday: Here are some marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Rare Z271 .W621 1987

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#MarbledMonday: For the next month, we'll be showing highlights from a 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815). Z271 .W621 1987

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A fine bird from Fine bird books, 1700-1900! You can find meadowlarks in parks throughout Columbia, but if you can't spot one in the wild, then you can always stop by Special Collections and check one out in this book!

QL674 .S58 1953

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#WizardlyWednesday: To bring a little magic into your life, here is the cover of WordPerfect: The Magazine, volume 1, number 1. The magazine debuted in January 1989, seven months after WordPerfect 5.0 was released. The magazine is part of the Samir Husni Magazine Collection, a recent donation to MU Libraries by Mr. Magazine™, Dr. Samir Husni.

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As we head into the weekend, we've got a fun one for you: a rebound set of John L. Stephens' "Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan" (1841). The books have been rebound with fresh leather, but the binder kept the original cover with its distinctive stamp and pasted it onto the front pastedown, almost like a doublure. It's a nice way to remember what the book used to look like before the repairs.

Rare F1432 .S83 1841