Welcome to the 18th century, where the ex libris are made up and the straightness of your tooling doesn’t matter.
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Arrrrrrgh!
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Pressed saguaro flower, photographed on the light-table. conservethis: Still life with saguaro flower and paste.
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I feels ya, book.
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Still life with saguaro flower and paste.
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It’s very hard to work out your paste and video it at the same time!
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Whoa. What a difference! Same publisher/printer/year/everything. Same library binding. Same library building, even. Very, very different results. The copy on the bottom is very, very brittle and brown. The copy on the top has paper that is still nicely flexible and white. It’s possible the copy on the bottom was kept in a big city, […]
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Splat!
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All these leaves and flowers were found pressed between the pages of one of our herbals, from Special Collections.
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Ghost soldier. From “The American portrait gallery : with biographical sketches of presidents, statesmen, military and naval heroes, clergymen, authors, poets” by Lillian C. Buttre, [1877-1880].