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Lydia Vvinters

#ScribesAndMakers 10, Book cover you like.

I'm absolutely smitten with Andrew Lang's original 1900s fairy book covers, charmingly illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. So much so, that I've taken to recreating and restoring the covers in detail so I can make them into notebooks and preserve them.

Currently, I have three restoration designs, and I am working on the lilac one. For which I really could use some more detailed images, so if anyone has one.🙏

Original lilac fairy book cover and spine featuring a fairy riding a falling star.
Book cover, grey, a fairy wielding a wand, riding an owl.
Yellow Book cover, A fairy looking up at the sun, arms spread open up towards it.
Olive green book cover. A fairy holding on to a branch offering an olive branch to another fairy flying in on a bat.
#oldbooks#illustration#books
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Sini Tuulia

Am browsing a Victorian sewing manual, as I am wont to do. Have one of those little decorative multi-tier tea service or cake stands taking up space in the cupboard, unused? Well, do the Victorians have a solution for you!
Embellish the heck out of the contraption and put some sewing things on it. 😆

An illustration, very zoomed in, scanned from the pages of an old book. There's a three tier service tray contraption, the kind you'd see Jane Austen characters have tiny biscuits, cucumber sandwiches and such served from. Here it has been bedecked with embroidered little valances and coverings. There are little beads hanging off the triangular flaps, like bunting but not, with little flowers and lace edges and whatnot. On the different trays there are sewing supplies, like bobbins, thimbles, knitting needles, scissors. It looks ridiculous, twee and kind of amazing. Would certainly work as a decorative place to put all of the usual faff when not in use. The text below it reads: "An unusual work-table made in the form of a miniature 'dumb waiter'. Each tier is edged with elaborately embroidered and decorated valances. 1876."
#OldBooks#Victorian#Sewing
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 📚 🎥 Hugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura Avium

“Are you interested in old books? Written and compiled in the late 12th century, this luxury manuscript compiles several texts about the natural world, including from natural philosopher and medieval scientist William of Conches.”

#Video length: seven minutes and thirty one seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/7dmVcDXM7vk

#History #OldBook #OldBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

YouTubeHugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura AviumBy Getty Museum
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MDMRN
In the midst of my books on my shelf lies this Newbery Award winning classic, "A Wrinkle In Time."

When I was in elementary school, I got this copy of the book. Even then, it was an old copy and it was well used after that. I believe I read this book annually until I was in college. I've read it a few times since, including a read through to my children back in 2020/2021.

I still love it.

What older books from your childhood, if any, do you still have on your shelf? Have you re-read them?

Let me know in the comments!

#Books #Bookstagrammer #AWrinkleInTime #MadelineLEngle #NewberyAward #OldBook #OldBooks #Photo #Bookstagram #Bookstodon
Photograph of the 1976 reprint of A Wrinkle In Time being held by a white person's hand. The cover art by artist Richard Bober, shows a muscular centaur with rainbow wings flying above a floating, angry, greenish-blue face with bright red eyes surrounded by a blue circle. Mountains and dark clouds are shown in the background.
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Steggy

I have received a book that belonged to my grandmother. It is entitled “Enquire Within Upon Everything”; this edition was published in 1906.
As promised, it contains information on everything.

Some of my favourites are: a recipe for turnip wine, the rules of whist, and how to apply leeches for (very questionable) medical treatment.

I’ll be tooting excerpts from random pages.

This book was given to my grandmother in 1909, while she was living on Liugong Island in Weihaiwei #Oldbooks #BookOfEverything

Photo of badly worn book cover, cover is red with the title Enquire Within Upon Everything in gold
Title page from Enquire Within Upon Everything, published in 1906
Book inscription: E Lambden, Temple Place, Lui-Kung-Tau, Wei-Hai-Wei, March ‘09
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hkz

#fleamarket today. Found some #books, the most interesting one is the following: it's an Italian translation of Paolo Giovio's Historiarum sui temporis (Histories of his time), 1608, printed in Venice. Sadly, only the second part. Binding's parchment is suffering signs of time, but not too badly.
Incision on frontespice depicts goddess Concordia (harmony/agreement in Latin).
#oldbooks #antiques #bibliomania

Frontespice of "Istorie del suo tempo" by Paolo Giovio, 2nd part. 1608 Paper is a bit dirty and stained in some parts, but writing is perfectly readable. An incision, just above the info on place of print and time, depicts goddess Concordia holding a libation bowl and a cornucopia.
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