Throwback: Marginalia
2) Folded, handwritten note laid in.
3) Not just a manicule, but a man (drawn into the margin and pointing across the text).
4) Reader illustrates pruning shears.
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March 15, 2012
December 5, 2011
![Reader adds more lines to the song “Oh, It’s a Lovely War!” written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott (1917) in a pause between sections: “Who wouldn’t be a soldier, eh?” “Gee, it’s a shame to take the pay. As soon as reville is gone. We all feel as heavy as lead. But we never get up till the seargent [sic] brings our breakfast up to bed.” (Listen here!)
From p. 307 of If Winter Comes, by Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1922). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvpg4fSqdD1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Reader adds more lines to the song “Oh, It’s a Lovely War!” written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott (1917) in a pause between sections: “Who wouldn’t be a soldier, eh?” “Gee, it’s a shame to take the pay. As soon as reville is gone. We all feel as heavy as lead. But we never get up till the seargent [sic] brings our breakfast up to bed.” (Listen here!)
From p. 307 of If Winter Comes, by Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1922). [Here]
October 14, 2011
Marginal notation and copious ink splatters.
From various pages of Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature by Johann Jacob Wecker (1661). [Here]
