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Pictures, text and page images from “The Entirely New Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom, 1905” by Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford and Addison Miznerr. I bought my copy of this little book in Olivia’s Books in Picton, Ontario. It is out of copyright.
Title: The Cynic’s Calendar
Published by: Paul Elder and Company
City: San Francisco
Date: 1905
Total items: 10
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image, Fox and Goose. [more...] [$]
Page detail: Art Neuveau Cartouche
The encyclopedia of the book says that a cartouche is [more...] [$]
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