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From The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse. Delacourte Press, 1956. Via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kids Love.
muizen ham by janwillemsen on Flickr.
Illustration by F. H. N. Bloemink, 1930s.
George Skadding, Pet Python, 1950. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.
I worked for a few years at the Harry Ransom Center, and the Blood Book was one of my favorites in their collections. In fact, all of Waugh’s archive was fascinating, especially his childhood journals.
The “Victorian Blood Book” from the Library of Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh, whose manuscripts and 3,500-volume library are now at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, was an inveterate collector of things Victorian (and well ahead of most of his contemporaries in this regard). Undoubtedly the most curious object in the Waugh library is a large oblong folio decoupage book known affectionately as the “Victorian Blood Book.”
Since it arrived here in the late 1960s, the “Blood Book” has fascinated everyone who has seen it. Its decoupage was assembled from several hundred engravings, many taken from books of etchings by William Blake. The principal motifs are natural (birds, animals, and especially snakes) and Christian (images of the cross, scenes from the Bible, and crusaders). Drops of red india ink and extensive commentary have been added to many of the images. The craftsmanship is exquisite, and the adhesion of the decoupages is still perfect. The book bears an inscription by one John Bingley Garland to his daughter Amy dated September 1, 1854.
All 41 plates of the book can be seen here.
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Het feest van Koning Beer by Louis Moe, 1930 by peacay on Flickr.
Via Bibliodyssey.
Gertrude Welsh on an ostrich, 1910. Source: Yorba Linda Public Library, via Calisphere.
Gertrude Welsh, Yorba Linda’s first librarian, is sitting on an ostrich named President Taft in the Cawston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena, CA on December 25, 1910. She is with her Uncle Will.
Aug 28 1963 by Beinecke Library on Flickr. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Construction Photographs, May 1961-Sept. 1963.
Rare book librarians have always worn comfortable shoes.
Work with schools, Yorkville Branch : class visit, ca. 1910. by New York Public Library on Flickr. Source: The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.
People taking a break from learning by Oregon State University Archives on Flickr.
Photographer: Herman T. Bohlman.
