Beinecke Library

Images of the Delsarte system of expression, popularized in the 1880s and found in the volume: The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution (Chicago: Conkey, 1898) [in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman's sample book, including Wood's Natural History for Children]

More printing examples from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)

An image of John Law as Don Quixote, from the volume: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, 1720, the focus of a conference to be held at Yale University, April 17-19, 2008: http://icf.som.yale.edu/GREAT_MIRROR/

Every book published by Julien Torma (one of the "dada suicides") during his lifetime. The Beinecke Library is listed as the only location that holds all four.

An 1829 poem on Leigh Park, a suburb of Hampshire, England, when it was still a bucolic estate. With a tenderly enlightening footnote.

An advertising flyer from the Dorian Book Service, which offered gay- and lesbian-themed publications in the 1960s. [View the large size to read the hilarious introduction - using what can be considered today "sanctioned vocabulary".]

Back patterns for American playing cards (from the Cary Collection) USA3 USA167 USA10 USA9