Sooooooomebody went a little crazy with the Demco hinge tape (link is definitely not an endorsement, but for educational reasons only)!! I counted SEVEN pages with the tape on it, not to mention the green tape on the cover. This book is now brittle and breaking at the edges of the tape. Sigh.
This is the first time I’ve seen a diazotype that wasn’t a single sheet or an architectural print. This one is a music score, with tape on it, natch. It stinks to high heaven.
Welcome to the 18th century, where the ex libris are made up and the straightness of your tooling doesn’t matter.
I feels ya, book.
All these leaves and flowers were found pressed between the pages of one of our herbals, from Special Collections.
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].
Pressed leaves found in-between the pages of a herbal.
I’m currently working on repairing this Victorian book of floral symbolism, and realized that a couple of the plates were loose and not in the right place. Unfortunately there was no paginated “List of Illustrations”, and the titles on the plates didn’t match up with the flowers listed in the table of contents. So what […]
“From grave to gay; being essays and studies concerned with certain subjects of serious interest, with the Puritans, with literature, and with the humours of life” by J. St. Loe Strachey
From “Economics of Fashion” by Paul Nystrom. 1928. Both our copies were victims of oversewing, vandalism, and acidic paper. I rather like the graffiti on this page, because it looks like she’s speaking a magic spell or something.