Items taken from Hone’s Everyday Book (1826) (results page 1)

Front Cover, Hone’s Everyday BookHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

The cover of my copy of Hone’s Everyday Book.

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Added: 2007-03-16

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Bookplate, R. B. ColvinHone’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 mo [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, colour

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Added: 2011-08-15

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Bona Dea - The EarthHone’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 fra [...]

Keywords: 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 woodcutHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

These circular zodiac symbols were in the border of the frontispiece of Hone’s Every Day Book. I also have an SVG version, and can supply transparent PNG files.

Keywords: 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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JanuaryHone’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 [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

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Added: 2003-03-18

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Gymnastics for YouthHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Children play on swings and on a climbing frame in a park.

Keywords: children, trees, swings, parks, greyscale

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Added: 2012-07-28

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the PillarHone’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.

Keywords: 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 [...]

Keywords: 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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FebruaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“— — Then came cold February, sitting In an old waggon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away; yet had he b [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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Awaiting the postman on Saint Valentine’s DayHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

St. Valentine’s day, the 14th of February (US: February 14) “Where can the postman be, I say? He ought to fly—on such a day!Of all days in the year, you know, It’s monstrous rude to be so slow: The fe [...]

Keywords: people, romance, sketches, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-05

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A beast devours a human heartHone’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 Val [...]

Keywords: romance, symbols, animals, greyscale

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Added: 2006-12-26

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PiscesHone’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 comme [...]

Keywords: fish, pisces, zodiac, astrology, february, march, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-03

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MarchHone’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 ysam [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, march, people, animals, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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SpringHone’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: “ [...]

Keywords: calendars, people, cherubs, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-17

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Fourteenth Century ManHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Showing how men dressed in the fourteenth century.

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Added: 2006-04-04

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AriesHone’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 y [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, months, aries, animals, sheep, march, april, greyscale

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Added: 2006-07-05

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Vernal EquinoxHone’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.

Keywords: astrology, stars, sun, calendars, diagrams, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-01

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Palm Sunday ProcessionHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“Palm Sunday This is the first Sunday before Easter, and is sometimes called Passiom Sunday. It is denominated Palm Sunday, because on this day the Roman catholic church ordains boughs or branches of [...]

Keywords: religion, people, churches, processions, easterreligion, horses, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-16

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AprilHone’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 [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, people, animals, april, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-16

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MayHone’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:     Upo [...]

Keywords: cherubs, bare feet, people, calendars, months, may, greyscale

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Added: 2004-05-01

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