http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Recently added pictures scanned from old books Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:27:00 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:27:00 GMT 180 http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/presspics/Liam10-70x100-amazon.jpg http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/191-in-love-with-the-prince/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/191-in-love-with-the-prince/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/tn/191-in-love-with-the-prince-q75-422x500.jpg" width="120" height="142" alt="A walk in a romantic dream" title="A walk in a romantic dream, from Atalanta Magazine (1888), added on 8th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>A finely-dressed lady and a prince, a young man, walk together through the grass. The prince carries a rose: clearly they are in love. In the background, a peacock fans its tail, and the prince&#x2019;s dog plays.</p> <p>The image is attributs to A. Brennan, which, by the date and the style of the work, I take to be Alfred Laurens Brennan, a New York artist originally from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/191-in-love-with-the-prince/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:37:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/191-in-love-with-the-prince/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/178-the-queen-and-the-cat/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/178-the-queen-and-the-cat/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/tn/178-the-queen-and-the-cat-q93-466x500.jpg" width="119" height="128" alt="The Queen and the Cat" title="The Queen and the Cat, from Atalanta Magazine (1888), added on 8th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>&#x201C;I will be mother to every one of you [cats],&#x201D; said the Baroness; &#x201C;my heart is big enough to hold you all. Kiss me my dear children, all of you. I will love you all, have no fear. [...]&#x201D;</p></div> <p>The Baroness, wearing a crown like a queen, holds a cat high in the air. An owl watches.</p> <p>The illustration is signed by Louis Wain.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/178-the-queen-and-the-cat/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:37:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/178-the-queen-and-the-cat/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/tn/190-Maria-q75-347x500.jpg" width="119" height="172" alt="Maria" title="Maria, from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885), added on 7th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>A photogravure: Maria. Here, a girl sits by a river-bank petting her dog; she has a flute on her lap, wears her long hair loose, and has a lace bodice. Next to her sits a man (the author), wearing a hat and coat, and shoes with knee-length stockings; he is gazing at her. He is in love with her.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:14:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria-detail-faces/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria-detail-faces/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/tn/190-Maria-detail-faces-q75-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75" alt="Maria, detail - faces - two people in love" title="Maria, detail - faces - two people in love, from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885), added on 7th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>Actually he is in love with her, but I am not sure she shared the feelings. This is a detail from the <a href="190-Maria">Maria</a> photogravure, sized for wide-screen computer desktops.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria-detail-faces/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:14:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/190-Maria-detail-faces/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/000-front-cover/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/000-front-cover/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/tn/000-front-cover-q75-368x500.jpg" width="120" height="163" alt="Front Cover" title="Front Cover, from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885), added on 7th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>The front cover of &#x201C;A Sentimental Journey in France and Italy&#x201D; has gold lettering (stamped, I think, because it feels indented) and illustrations from the book.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/000-front-cover/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:12:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/000-front-cover/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0228-Saxon-Emblems-of-the-Month-of-February/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0228-Saxon-Emblems-of-the-Month-of-February/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/0228-Saxon-Emblems-of-the-Month-of-February-q75-500x378.jpg" width="119" height="90" alt="228.&#x2014;Saxon Emblems of the Month of February." title="228.&#x2014;Saxon Emblems of the Month of February., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 6th Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p><b>February.</b></p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0228-Saxon-Emblems-of-the-Month-of-February/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:25:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0228-Saxon-Emblems-of-the-Month-of-February/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/tn/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-q75-475x500.jpg" width="120" height="126" alt="Harwood 5: pressed flower" title="Harwood 5: pressed flower, from Things Found In Old Books (1806), added on 2nd Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood&#x2019;s 1801 &#x201C;Grecian Antiquities&#x201D;.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:00:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-obverse/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-obverse/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/tn/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-obverse-q75-500x495.jpg" width="119" height="118" alt="Harwood 6: pressed flower from the other side" title="Harwood 6: pressed flower from the other side, from Things Found In Old Books (1806), added on 2nd Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood&#x2019;s 1801 &#x201C;Grecian Antiquities&#x201D;.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-obverse/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:59:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-pressed-flower-obverse/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-envelope-front/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-envelope-front/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/tn/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-envelope-front-q90-500x444.jpg" width="119" height="106" alt="Harwood 3: scrap of envelope." title="Harwood 3: scrap of envelope., from Things Found In Old Books (1806), added on 2nd Feb 2010" /></a></p> <p>A scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood&#x2019;s 1801 &#x201C;Grecian Antiquities&#x201D;—there is a calculation, 14.56 × 225, giving £3,2557; there is also a stamp that I have taken for a postmark, reading &#x201C;JY A? 11 ?806&#x201D; which I have taken to be a date of July 11th 1806, with a missing letter giving a two-letter abberviatoin for a place in England, but that is largely suppositoin on my part. There is also part of an address, in a darker ink than the calculation, &#x201C;For Mr. B—&#x201D; which presumably started the address.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-envelope-front/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:58:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/misc-book-inserts/pages/Harwood-GrecianAntiquities-envelope-front/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/000-frontispiece-portrait/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/000-frontispiece-portrait/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/tn/000-frontispiece-portrait-q90-354x501.jpg" width="119" height="169" alt="Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature" title="Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature, from Goethe&#x2019;s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882), added on 30th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).</p> <p>Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/000-frontispiece-portrait/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:03:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/000-frontispiece-portrait/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/002-detail-ornament/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/002-detail-ornament/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/tn/002-detail-ornament-q97-500x235.jpg" width="119" height="56" alt="Typographic ornament or flower from page 2." title="Typographic ornament or flower from page 2., from Goethe&#x2019;s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882), added on 30th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A piece of 19th century clipart? A small decorative piece from the end of a poem, a twirly flourish.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/002-detail-ornament/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:03:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/002-detail-ornament/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/005-detail-initial-letter-e/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/005-detail-initial-letter-e/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/tn/005-detail-initial-letter-e-q89-500x380.jpg" width="120" height="91" alt="Decorative Initial letter E" title="Decorative Initial letter E, from Goethe&#x2019;s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882), added on 30th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A German Fraktur letter &#x201C;E&#x201D; used as an inital drop cap, with a winged putti or cherub holding a ribbon tied to a branch over a Janus, ot two-faced head.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/005-detail-initial-letter-e/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:02:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Duenker-Goethe/pages/005-detail-initial-letter-e/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/tn/142-the-last-of-their-race-q75-500x425.jpg" width="120" height="102" alt="The Last of their Race" title="The Last of their Race, from Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878), added on 28th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A family of First Nations (Native) people at the shore, including two men, two women and an infant. The picture is fanciful: headdresses and other regalia weer not generally worn lightly, and were certainly not fastened by piercing a hole into the skull!</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race/">(read more...)</a></p> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:42:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race-native-wallpaper/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race-native-wallpaper/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/tn/142-the-last-of-their-race-native-wallpaper-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="The Last of their Race (wallpaper version)" title="The Last of their Race (wallpaper version), from Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878), added on 28th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A Desktop background/ Wallpaper version of <a href="142-the-last-of-their-race">The Last of their Race</a>, made by cutting off the caption at the bototm.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race-native-wallpaper/">(read more...)</a></p> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:41:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/142-the-last-of-their-race-native-wallpaper/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/000-front-cover-border-bw/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/000-front-cover-border-bw/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/tn/000-front-cover-border-bw-q90-300x500.jpg" width="120" height="200" alt="Early Victorian Border from Book Cover" title="Early Victorian Border from Book Cover, from Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878), added on 28th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>This Victorian decorative border is taken from the cover of the book; it features flowers and berries. Note that it is made from eight separate pieces that you could move around if you wanted: for example, to make a square border, remove the centre pieces from ether side. The design had an extra thick rectangular box around it originally, and that would help it, but on theactual book cover it wasn&#x2019;t in good enouh condition to retain.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/000-front-cover-border-bw/">(read more...)</a></p> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:37:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Abell-GemsByTheWayside/pages/000-front-cover-border-bw/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/pages/759-detail-ornament-1/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/pages/759-detail-ornament-1/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/tn/759-detail-ornament-1-q97-500x500.jpg" width="120" height="120" alt="Typographical ornament or printer&#x2019;s flower" title="Typographical ornament or printer&#x2019;s flower, from The Holy Court (1663), added on 27th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>Ornaments like this were very popular in 17th and 18th century France; they are getting a resurgene in popularity on the Web. This one shows a ring of five circles, with a central ring too; the shadows make them look like spheres. The texture of the paper on which it was printed gives it an almost dream-like sketched quality.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/pages/759-detail-ornament-1/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:22:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/pages/759-detail-ornament-1/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-e/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-e/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/tn/650-detail-initial-letter-e-q80-500x484.jpg" width="120" height="116" alt="Initial letter &#x201C;E&#x201D; from p. 650" title="Initial letter &#x201C;E&#x201D; from p. 650, from Fabrica... (1543), added on 25th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>Here a bearded man has his left leg fastened in a wooden box with a large screw to tighten it; somenaked children (putti) are turning the winch.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-e/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:44:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-e/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-d/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-d/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/tn/650-detail-initial-letter-d-q80-500x484.jpg" width="120" height="116" alt="Initial letter &#x201C;D&#x201D; from p. 650" title="Initial letter &#x201C;D&#x201D; from p. 650, from Fabrica... (1543), added on 25th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>A block initial letter &#x201C;D&#x201D; used as a drop cap; This decorative initial features gleeful naked children (putti) sawing through a severed human head on a table!</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-d/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:44:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-detail-initial-letter-d/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0192-Arms-and-Costume-of-Danish-Warriors/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0192-Arms-and-Costume-of-Danish-Warriors/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/0192-Arms-and-Costume-of-Danish-Warriors-q90-403x500.jpg" width="119" height="148" alt="192.&#x2014;Arms and Costume of Danish Warriors" title="192.&#x2014;Arms and Costume of Danish Warriors, from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 24th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>Two male soldiers are shown, one bearded and one beardless. On thr right, a man with a headdress of some kind wears a short kilt or skirt, and has one hand resting on his thigh and the other holding a long thin sword by the blade (one has to assume that this picture was not taken from life?). He is wearing tights, seemingly without shoes. To his left, a younger man, beardless, has an axe over his shoulder, and leans against a rock on which is drawn or carved a picture of somone riding a horse. In the backgrund we see a stone circle.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0192-Arms-and-Costume-of-Danish-Warriors/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:49:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0192-Arms-and-Costume-of-Danish-Warriors/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-page-image/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-page-image/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/tn/650-page-image-q90-309x500.jpg" width="120" height="194" alt="p. 650, showing page layout" title="p. 650, showing page layout, from Fabrica... (1543), added on 24th Jan 2010" /></a></p> <p>Fine typography from the 16th century. This image shows use of &#x201C;historiated initials&#x201D; as drop caps (available on this Web site as separate images), marginalia, and careful control of the darkness and texture of the printed page (the colour, as typographers call it).</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-page-image/">(read more...)</a></p> Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:04:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Vesalius-Fabrica/pages/650-page-image/