I’m getting “oh really” or “do I have to listen to this for the umpteenth time” vibes from this marmoset drawn by Weber in Wagner’s Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur (pl.13, supplementband, 1855). #animalexpressions #specialbooks #illustration
Reverend J. G. Wood, born #OTD in 1827, published dozens of popular books on natural history. To celebrate his 198th birthday, here are a few of our favourites... #Bookbindings, #IllustratedBindings, #Victorian, #SpecialBooks, #TradeBindings
Alt text: Reel of Victorian bookbindings [has audio]
We've digitised our John Abbot (1751-1840) paintings of the birds of Georgia (1827). Abbot was born on May 31 (parish records)/June 1 (Abbot's choice) -- see yesterday's post for his insects! #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #DigitalHumanities
Alt text: Reel of drawings of birds from Georgia.
John Abbot (1751-1840) spent most of his life collecting and drawing the #birds and #insects of Georgia. He was born on either May 31 (parish records) or June 1 (Abbot's choice). See his birds tomorrow! #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #otd
Alt text: A reel showing drawings of insects
We're not asking you to *judge* a book by its cover (this one has some lovely artwork inside), just that you don't look past it! #Bookbinding #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #Doublure #FineBinding
Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.
It's easy here to get distracted by lovely things.
Need some distraction yourself? Enjoy these endpapers to, uh, end the month.
#BehindTheScenes #Endpapers #Bookbinding #NaturalHistoryMuseum #BlueSkyBooks
#SpecialBooks #BookSky
Image: A video of decorative papers from fifteen rare books.
Children's cookbook with a cat and dog in front of an oven containing biscuits
For the next 20 days I'll post covers of special children's books from my collection. Please repost and add some of your own!
1: My Learn to Cook Book, Ursula Sedgewick & Martin Mayhew. I cooked from this as a child & the joyful illustrations were a huge influence on me.
#kidlit #specialbooks
