Loretta Ellen Brady. The Green Forest Fairy Book. Illustrations by Alice B. Preston. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1920.
I’ve included all the colour plates in this book below the fold. The drawings are done in a limited palate in the Art Nouveau style and I think the artwork is charming.
Our book today was sent in by Anne, Cranky Cat Lady. I am greatly amused that our resident Cat Lady is sharing a book about the killing of a bird.
Who Killed Cock Robin & Other Stories. New York, A.L. Burt Co., 1916. Photo courtesy of ©Anne, Cranky Cat Lady
Who Killed Cock Robin & Other Stories. New York, A.L. Burt Co., 1916. Photo Courtesy of ©Anne, Cranky Cat Lady
This week Opus has sent us an interesting fungus that he found growing on his property.
Finally had a little time for photography so started with some fungus from the property. I have no idea what this is, or why it grows in square segments, but it is striking.
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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…
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
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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