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Bookplate, R. B. Colvin
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
It seems that my copy of this book once belonged to one B. B. Colvin, probably Beale Blackwell Colvin (1809 – 1865), of Monkham’s Hall, Waltham, Essex; he was the high sheriff of Essex in 1848.The mot [...]
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bookplates, heraldry, colour
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Added: 2011-08-15
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Bona Dea - The Earth
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
(Frontispiece)Earth is represented as a woman with twelve stars forming a halo around the crown on her head, and a lion beside her. She is crowned with the stars! She is depicted inside a picture fram [...]
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people, animals, lions, zodiac, symbols, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, crowns, stars, greyscale
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Added: 2003-03-18
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The signs of the Zodiac, from an 1826 woodcut
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
These circular zodiac symbols were in the border of thefrontispieceof Hone’s Every Day Book. I also have an SVG version, and can supply transparent PNG files.
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zodiac, symbols, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, greyscale
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Added: 2019-04-16
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January
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow.In the sky is a [...]
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snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour
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Added: 2003-03-18
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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
(page 35)
Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.
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people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, easter, colour
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Added: 2003-03-31
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Aquarius, or, the Water Bearer.
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
“The sun enters Aquarius on this day [21st January], though he does not enter it in the visible zodiac until the 18th of February.Ganymede, who succeeded Hebe as cup-bearer to Jove, is fabled to have [...]
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bare feet, people, beards, water, zodiac, aquarius, astrology, january, february, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Added: 2006-02-14
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February
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
“— — Then came cold February, sittingIn an old waggon, for he could not ride,Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting,Which through the flood before did softly slydeAnd swim away; yet had he by hi [...]
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months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces, greyscale
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Awaiting the postman on Saint Valentine’s Day
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
St. Valentine’s day, the 14th of February (US: February 14)“Wherecanthe postman be, I say?He ought tofly—on such a day!Ofalldays in the year, you know,It’s monstrous rude to be soslow:The fellow’s soe [...]
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people, romance, sketches, humour, greyscale
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Added: 2007-01-05
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A beast devours a human heart
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
This illustration appears in the entry for February 14th, St. Valentine’s Day.“remember, my dear girl, that as smiles on the face sometimes conceal cruel dispositions, so there are some who write Vale [...]
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romance, symbols, animals, greyscale
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Added: 2006-12-26
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Pisces
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
The zodiacal sign of pisces, two fish, here with a ribbon or rope bound from the tail of one to that of the other.“This zodiacal sign is said to symbolize the fishery of the Nile, which usually commen [...]
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fish, pisces, zodiac, astrology, february, march, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Added: 2006-06-03
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March
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
“—Sturdy March with brows full sternly bent And armed strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam;Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of weeds ysame,Wh [...]
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calendars, months, march, people, animals, greyscale
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Added: 2006-02-14
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Spring
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
Spring, the book informs us, commences on the 6th of March, and lasts ninety-three days. The woodcut shows a winged infant boy holding flowers. The following verse is printed beneath the engraving:“S [...]
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calendars, people, cherubs, spring, greyscale
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Added: 2006-03-17
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Aries
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
Aries comes under the entry for the 20th of March:“Aries, or the ram, as a zodiacal sign, is said to have been derived by the Greeks from the golden fleece brought from Colchis by Jason, about 1263 ye [...]
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zodiac, astrology, months, aries, animals, sheep, march, april, greyscale
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Added: 2006-07-05
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Vernal Equinox
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
Perhaps not a very clear illustration of an equinox, but still a pretty woodcut of the Sun’s rays reaching the Earth.
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astrology, stars, sun, calendars, diagrams, greyscale
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Added: 2006-02-01
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Palm Sunday Procession
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
“Palm SundayThis is the first Sunday before Easter, and is sometimes calledPassiomSunday. It is denominatedPalm Sunday, because on this day the Roman catholic church ordains boughs or branches of palm [...]
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religion, people, churches, processions, easter
religion, horses, greyscale
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Added: 2007-03-16
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April
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
April is a youth with curly hair and carrying a garland. He wears a tunic and sandals, with a cape billowing out behind him in the wind, and he rides a bucking bull that is jumping up out of a puddle [...]
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months, calendars, people, animals, april, greyscale
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May
Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
A poem beneath the picture reads as follows:MAY.Then came faire May, the fayrest mayd on ground, Dekt all with dainties of her seasons pryde,And throwing flow’res out of her lap around: Upon two [...]
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cherubs, bare feet, people, calendars, months, may, greyscale
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Added: 2004-05-01
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