Product Placement Discovered in 19th Century British Novels
Back in the Saddle Again!Inspiriting Action!Feeling Better than Ever!Neurasthenia a Bad Memory!Men. Who Needs Them?According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Get Ready for Ads in Books,...
View ArticleOur Lady of the Bookshop, 1782
Beauty in Search of KnowledgeLondon: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett 30th Decr. 1782.Single sheet mezzotint hand-colored in gouache.Artist unknown. It's a story not found in any collection of...
View ArticleHow Did Hand-Colorists in the Past Know What Colors To Use?
AndalouseThis past Tuesday, our friend L.D. Mitchell at The Private Library, discussed Hand-Colored Plates, paying particular attention to the assembly-line process required to manually color...
View ArticleTom Congalton of BTC Celebrates 57 Years (on Earth), 25 Years in the Rare...
Fifty-seven years ago today, lil' neonate Tom Congalton, proprietor and grand panjandrum of Between the Covers books in Gloucester City, NJ, emerged from the darkness into the light; his mom was...
View ArticleA Roll in the Hay Library at 100
BROCK & Company, C.T.The History, description & price list ofC. T. Brock & Co's "Crystal Palace" Fireworks Ltd. ... ,London: C. T. Brock & Co, 1938. (All Images Courtesy Of Brown...
View ArticleSecret Neighborhood Comes Out Of The Closet In San Francisco
The Street Fair/La Feria. An Illustration From: Crossing The Street Tales of The Portola,By Kate Connell and Oscar Melara.(All Images Courtesy Of The Portola Branch Library ofSan Francisco Public...
View ArticleDown With Industrialism! William Morris and the Private Press Revolt
Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (Kelmscott Press, 1892)The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on the world of books: mechanization made it possible to produce thousands of copies of a work...
View ArticleRadical Pre-Raphaelites Invade Delaware
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)Lady Lilith, 1866-68 (altered 1872-73) Oil on canvas. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935.Lilith, the subject of this painting, is...
View ArticleMars Needs Lawyers! (A Rare Book Adventure)
SCHACHNER, Nat. Space Lawyer. NY: Gnome Press,1953.Cover by Ric Binkley."Nat Schachner's first science fiction novel in book form is delightfully different reading for the thousands of readers who are...
View ArticleThe Sinsational Vintage Porn Novel About the Rare Book Trade
[HUNTER, Evan]. JUDSON, Dean. Sin Dealer.N.p. [Chicago]: Pillar Books [Greenleaf Publications] PB 813, 1963.Cover by Harold W. McCauley.From Books to Boudoirs! Luscious Leigh Wentworth was an expert at...
View ArticleUntested Tranquilizer Circulates At Yale Library
Yale Law Library's Photo Of The Now Withdrawn Tranquilizer.(Images Courtesy of Above The Law.)The story broke September 13, 2010 in the online legal tabloid, Above The Law: Yale Law School's Lillian...
View ArticleMeet Adele Mundy, Badass Space Librarian
DRAKE, David. Some Golden Harbor. NY: Baen Books, 2006.Cover by Steve Hickman.For conspiring against the government of Cinnabar, her family was massacred; she is the sole survivor. She's a scholar, a...
View ArticleSeventeenth Century Television’s Mr. Wizard
CARAMUELIUS, Aspasius [Gaspar Schott]. Ioco-Seriorum Naturae et Artis sive Magiae Naturalis Centuriaetres. Neapoli. N.p. [Würzburg], n.d. [1666]. From 1951 through 1965, a television show appeared that...
View ArticleThe “Other Man” Behind the Private Press Movement
Walker, photographed by George Bernard Shaw.Photo courtesy of the Emery Walker TrustMany people have heard of William Morris. Those with an interest in fine printing or fine binding will know the names...
View Article“20th Century Propaganda” Wins Nt’l Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
Cover to comic book, Is This Tomorrow.Catechetical Guild, 1947.Andrew Fink, a student at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), has won First Prize in the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting...
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