Images of birds from a compilation of engraved plates: Eillars, Giovanni. Varii Et Diversi Uccelli Cavati Dal Naturale Et Intaglate ["sic"] in Rame ... Dno Francisco, Dni Marii Piccolominei Filio, Joan. Eillars D. D. S.l: s.n, n.d.. which may be variant or copied plates from a more widely-known work:

August 29, 2012

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 17th, bird, book, century, engraving, italy, uccelo

The Book of Skeletons

April 12, 2012

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, book, engraving, girl, medical, medicine, reading

Centroid envy

A scrapbook of original designs and proof prints for early Victorian bindings done by R. A. Harrison, ca. 1840s. Along with sketches for roundels and decorative borders, product labels, and a caricature, are a number of proof sheets for bindings, that retain, remarkably, their intense colors, making available to bibliographers for this period of book production, some of the most faithful hues (which can be described using the Centroid Color Chart).

October 6, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1840s, artist, binding, book, color, cover, decorative, harrison, jacket, printing, proof, publishing, victorian

A Woman's Paradise

UNION FRANÇAISE DES INDUSTRIES EXPORTATRICES. l’Elegance Francaise. Paris Ateliers d’Impressions et de Cartonnages d’Art, [1940].

October 3, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1940, book, booklet, exportatrices, fair, fashion, francaise, industries, paradise, paris, union, war, woman, women, world

Visualizing History

Pages from Elizabeth Peabody's Universal History: Arranged to Illustrate Bem's Charts of Chronology. New York: Pub. for the author by Sheldon and Co, 1859. A system for charting historical events on a grid (representing historical periods, arranged chronologically); squares, divided into 9 parts each, to represent distinct categories of historical events; and colors, to show different "Nations".

September 2, 2011