Joseph C. Sindelar. Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land. Illustrated by Helen Geraldine Hodge. Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Company, 1914.
The Art of Book Design: Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land
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Joseph C. Sindelar. Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land. Illustrated by Helen Geraldine Hodge. Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Company, 1914.
Some more details of the tiles at Park Güell. It certainly is one of my favourite places in Barcelona, once conceived as a settlement for workers, with a sustainable water recycling facility and communal area. It was never finished, but has become one of Barcelona’s tourist attractions.
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You can see how the colourful tiles have been smashed up in order to fit them to all the curved surfaces.
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Here they look more random. Anecdote has it that the Barceloneses thought Gaudí was crazy for commissioning perfectly good tiles and the smashing them all up…
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The building to the left is not part of Park Güell but an older one.
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This area is underneath the “balconies” we saw yesterday.
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It’s hard to see in the pic’s, but none of the columns goes up straight.
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This week we have another submission from VBFF, who tells me that they’ve placed these carved trees around the city where she lives as part of an effort to draw in tourists. I think this one is marvelous and I hope VBFF will send in a few more photos of these wonderful re-purposed trees …. hint, hint.
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John Muir. My First Summer in the Sierra; with Illustrations from drawings made by the author in 1869 and photographs by Herbert Gleason. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
via: The Internet Archive
Helen Leah Reed. Brenda’s Summer at Rockley. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1901.
Cover photo via: Pinterest
The book is available to read at The Internet Archive
Henrietta R Eliot. Laura’s Holidays. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company 1898.
via: The George Smithers Library, University of Florida Digital Collections
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
It isn’t exactly a fairy tale, but I’m feeling nostalgic and this is one of my favourite books from childhood. My mother read to me every night until long after I could read for myself and this was the book that I most often asked for. I loved the gentle ways of Pooh and his friends and my mom had different voices for each of the characters that brought the book to life. The edition above is from 1961 and it’s the one that we had in our little library. I wish I could say that I still had it, but when my parents divorced it went missing along with a lot of other books that were likely passed down to another child in our neighbourhood. [Read more…]
Isabella Ingalese. Mata the Magician: A Romance of the New Era. London, New York, Montreal: The Abbey Press Publishers, [1901]. First edition.
Cover photo via: L.W. Currey Inc
A later edition is available to read at Google Books
L.M. Budgen. Episodes of Insect Life. London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849.
via: The Internet Archive
Frances Emerson Judd. The Owls, Eve and Other Poems. Marshalltown, Webster and Burkart, 1888.
Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cookbook for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and outers. New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1885
via: The Internet Archive
John Harington Keene. Fishing Tackle. London, New York; Ward, Lock, 1886. First Edition.
Cover photo via: Abe Books
Available to read at The Internet Archive
Richard Le Gallienne. The Romance of Zion Chapel. Cover designed by Will Bradley. London and New York; John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898.
via: The Internet Archive