April 23, 2013

Newspaper clippings.

Throughout Some Improvements to the Art of Teaching, Especially in the First Grounding of a Young Scholar in Grammar Learning by William Walker (1730). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 28, 2006.

April 22, 2013
Clipped image pasted in.
From the back matter of Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert William Service (1916). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 24, 2007.

Clipped image pasted in.

From the back matter of Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert William Service (1916). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 24, 2007.

August 24, 2012

Newspaper clippings pasted in: “Bendigo Agricultural and Horticultural Society” and “Australian Wines in England.”

From the back matter of A Manual of Plain Directions for Planting and Cultivating Vineyards, and for Making Wine in New South Wales by James Busby (1830). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 11, 2006.

May 23, 2012
Caricature pasted into front endpapers.
From Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen by Sir Max Beerbohm (1896). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 14, 2011.

Caricature pasted into front endpapers.

From Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen by Sir Max Beerbohm (1896). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 14, 2011.

March 16, 2012
Clipped-out and pasted-in portrait of Christina Rossetti.
From the front matter of Goblin Market, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, ills. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 26, 2006. 

Clipped-out and pasted-in portrait of Christina Rossetti.

From the front matter of Goblin Market, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, ills. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 26, 2006. 

December 24, 2011
Newspaper clipping pasted in.
From the back matter of A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1845). 

Newspaper clipping pasted in.

From the back matter of A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1845). 

November 23, 2011

Rare books catalog advertisement for the book cut out, pasted in.
From the front matter of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare (1603). [Here]

Rare books catalog advertisement for the book cut out, pasted in.

From the front matter of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare (1603). [Here]

September 25, 2011
Newspaper article about the death of the author pasted into front endpapers and digitized.
From the front matter of The Student’s Flora of the British Islands by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884). [Here]

Newspaper article about the death of the author pasted into front endpapers and digitized.

From the front matter of The Student’s Flora of the British Islands by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884). [Here]