#engravings

[charnel-grounds]

Gustave Doré (1832–1883)

illustrations from Milton’s Paradise lost, c. 1866

“The Fall of Satan to the Earth” “Satan’s Despair” “Satan Overlooking Paradise” “Satan in the Garden of Eden”

[theinternetarchive]

'weary and dissatisfied with everything,' wood engraving, winslow homer, american c. 1869.

[nemfrog]

Handshakes. Clichés & gravures v.1. Cuts & engravings. 1912. Specimen book.

Internet Archive

[jstor]

Today we bring you a few lovely bookplates, designed by Frederick Garrison Hall (1879–1946)! Hall was an architect by trade but is better-known for his etchings.

These images are from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open access collection, available to browse on JSTOR (1, 2, 3, 4).

All I know is, I definitely don't need to adorn the books in my personal library with a stamp like these, but that won't stop me from exploring some of my options...

[thefugitivesaint]

Andrew Davidson, 'Creatures of the Wood', ''The Mink War'' by Gene Kemp, 1992

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

Here are some architectural designs from The City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs by English garden designer Batty Langley (1696-1751), printed for and sold by Samuel Harding in London in 1745. The designs are for floors, ceilings, cabinets, and frames engraved in copper by Langley's brother Thomas Langley (1702-1751) after Batty Langley's drawings. Our copy is the 3rd edition, with the first printed by Jacob Ilive for Batty Langley in 1740. It would continue to be published through multiple editions to 1777.

View more posts from books by Batty Langley.

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[echo-bleu]

Dragons!

The second one didn't come out as well as I hoped but I think it still looks good. Engraved on a mini-juice box, printed with a pasta machine :)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Knight, Death and the Devil - art by Albrecht Dürer (1513)