Scraps

zerotorockstar.com's dirty little basement. 

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Exlibris, 1908

Elsa Preuschl Von Haldenburg

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Art by H. Ospovat (1898) - Bookplate.

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The Lands of Heaven (Les terres du ciel), 1877. 

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Bookplate etching by William Bell Scott for Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, by John Byrne Warren, published in 1893.  The artwork was designed and engraved by Scott as a gift to the author.

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Les ex-libris de medecins et de pharmaciens - 1908 - via Internet Archive

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Frederick Stuart Church (1842-1924), ‘A Fairy Tale’, “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine”, 1887 Source

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Celia Levetus (also known as C. A. Nicholson and Diana Forbes) (1874-1936) was a Canadian-English author, poet and illustrator of the Birmingham School. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Illustration “Celia Levetus: A Bookplate” from Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New By Walter Crane. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1921.

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Unnamed engraving by Hieronymus Wierix, c. 1619.

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This mysterious unfinished page, recently added to the collection, comes from a long-lost medieval book. We’re not sure who made it, why, or what it depicts, and our curators have been sleuthing to learn more. One neat aspect of this leaf is that it gives us a glimpse at the process of illuminating a manuscript. The text came first, then gold leaf, then the lighter colors (shown here), followed by the darker colors and final details. 

Medieval Mysteries: Considering a Recent Acquisition

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Angelic names in a rune-like script, from Dresden MS N.100, a miscellany of astronomical, astrological and geomantic tracts.

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Contes du temps passé par Charles Perrault. PARIS. L.Curmer, Éditeur. 1843.

Barbe Bleue.

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The first ever photographs of lightning shot by amateur photographer William N. Jennings between 1885 and 1890

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Just living the nightmare.

Cruising around. Saw some new stuff on the walls. Took some pix. There you go.

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Wishing my extended online family a peaceful and happy holidays.