William Everett Cram. Little Beasts of Field and Wood. Boston, Small, Maynard and Co., 1899.
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The Art of Book Design: Little Beasts of Field and Wood
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William Everett Cram. Little Beasts of Field and Wood. Boston, Small, Maynard and Co., 1899.
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Clara Dillingham Pierson. Among the Pond People. Illustrated by F.C. Gordon. New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1901.
Jack loves to hang out among the pond people, but I’m not sure they feel the same way about him.
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Mary Johnston. To Have and to Hold. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900.
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Last time we looked at the front, now it’s time to enter. I momentarily feared I was going to be shot at the security checkpoint because I jumped towards my backpack as they were trying to open it. But the nice people were trying to open a backpack full of camera equipment holding it so that my lenses would fall out. They afterwards agree that it’s a nice camera…
Anyway, when you enter you walk past a gate with flower and plant decoration, complete with assorted beetles. I couldn’t find out if there was something special about this fellow, but it was polished shiny from all the hands, so it seemed customary to caress it as well.
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Visiting in the evening is amazing as the sun shines directly through the windows, basking everything in light and colours. We were extremely lucky with the weather. In Mataró it had rained all morning and when we set out, it was still cloudy. In Barcelona the clouds tore up, the air was clear and fresh and the sun shone all evening. When we got back we saw that in Mataró the rain had returned with a vengeance…
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Archer Butler Hulbert. The Queen of Quelparte: A Story of Russian Intrigue in the Far East. Illustrated by Winfield S. Lukens. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1904.
Cover Photo via: Kobay Auction
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Arabella B. Buckley. Life and her children: Glimpses of Animal Life. Insects illustrated by Edwin Wilson. All other illustration is by Dr. Wild. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1901.
Cover Photo via: Heaven in a Wildflower
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This weekend I had to mainly 1) prepare firewood for winter and 2) finish my first commissioned knife.
The customer had a look at the knife and I had to adjust the handle a bit so it fits in their hand. No biggie, but it was three hours of additional work all the same since I had to re-shape, re-polish and re-buff the endcap as well. When making knives that are not customer-specific I have to try and make the grips more universal sized and shaped. Or perhaps in different sizes?
Now the knife handle is being coated with boat lack, which is not a process that lends itself to being photographed. As far as the knife goes, you won’t see any new pictures until its finished. But next weekend, while the lacquer is drying and hardening, I am going to make the leather sheath and hopefully make som worthwhile pictures of that. I have not done too much of leatherwork yet, it will be fun.
In the meantime, I only can post a picture I made at work with my phone a few days ago. A gruesome image of one spider devouring another one. See below the fold. I have no idea what species or even genera they might be, but what I do find interesting that it is the slender-legged and fragile looking spider who is doing the devouring and the buff-looking hairy beast is the devoured.
Louie Chishom. Celtic Tales. Cover art and illustration by Katherine Cameron. U.K. and U.S., T.C. & E.C., E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Arthur Machin. The House of Souls. Cover Design and Illustration by Sidney Simes. London, E.Grant Richards, 1906.
cover photo via: L.W. Curry
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James Ward. The Principles of Ornament. Edited by George Aitchison. London, Chapman and Hall,1896.
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Marjorie Winslow. Mud Pies and Other Recipes. Illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Macmillen, 1961.
A summertime cookbook for your dolls.
This year we decided to finally visit the Sagrada Familia, Gaudí’s masterpiece, which just now got a construction permit. I went there 20 years ago, when you just showed up, threw a few bucks at them and then explored at your leisure. Now you have to book in advance, have a 15 Min window to enter and then have to go through security like at an airport. We bought “evening tickets” which are cheaper and give you an hour to explore the cathedral, which we deemed to be enough with the kids and also we wanted to see it again later in the dark. The entrance prices showed why the whole thing is absurd, since the kid who had to pay reduced admission was complaining and staring at her phone the whole time, while the kid who got in for free called it “the best thing she’d ever seen”.
Let’s start with the outside.
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You enter the cathedral through the “Birth Portal”. Why it’s called that we’ll see in a minute.
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You can clearly see the older and newer parts here.
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And here we have him, baby Jesus, apparently needing a bath in a tub.
Sarah Orne Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston, Houghton, Mifflen & Company, 1896
It’s Tuesday and this book serves double duty as a book cover and as a Tuesday Tree. That is just win-win.
Cover photo via: The Lambertville Library
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