Glorious early modern woodcut decorative devices, and illustrations in some of our books for auction this week.
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Beautiful decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Beautiful decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #woodcuts #earlymodern #woodcutwednesday #booktwitter #printhistory #bookhistory #bookauctions
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Passamezo #AdventCalendar: Day 10
A late #16thCentury French book of #carols
Philibert Bugnyon's 'Noel nouveau, fort plaisant & recreatif'
BNF
#earlymusic #woodcutwednesday #earlymodern #christmascarols #noels
Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 3
A #Tudor #carol book.
Christmas carolles newely Imprinted, 1547
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Beautiful woodcut decoration and devices in this 16thC volume containing 3x scarce Bible commentaries by Joannes Arboreus
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A vertical rectangular black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. Floating on a black background is a humanoid figure with tentacled limbs, a long trailing tail, and a sharp toothed grimace. Arrayed behind it are six wing-like fins studded with different sizes and types of eyes. The figure resembles a Jenny Haniver, a type of taxidermy created by cutting and drying a stingray into a humanoid form.
Angel of Dagon
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
LE of 30 signed and numbered plus 3 AP
Created as a H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Kickstarter exclusive #art #woodcut #woodcutWednesday #printmaking #weird #weirdfiction
Delightful woodcut publisher's & decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Close-up of woodcut illustration of a rabbit-faced creature covered in scales in the water.
Close-up of a woodcut illustration of a lion-faced creature covered in scales in the water.
Close-up of a woodcut illustration of a bull-faced creature covered in scales in the water
View of the full first page of Hortus Sanitatis including these three illustrations and the surrounding text.
Underwater hybrid creatures in medieval times?🫣
Hortus Sanitatis - Jacob Meydenbach
First published in Latin 1491, Mainz Germany.
This leaf, or page, is from very first printing.
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Woodcut image of a pedestal with two statue feet on top, cut off by the border and implying there is more above. Text suggests it is or looks like a statue dreamed of by Nebuchadnezzar with iron legs and feet of clay.
Statuesque?
Prophetic Legs dreamed of by Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel. #WyrdWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. folio 161)
Charming woodcuts throughout 1671 edition of Robert May's 'The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery'.
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Delightful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Lovely early ownership names and inscriptions, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Some interesting woodcuts in some of our books for auction tonight.
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One page from the 1483 edition of The Play of Chess, featuring a hand-coloured woodcut illustration. the illustration depicts two men playing chess.
Happy #WoodcutWednesday! This is a hand-coloured woodcut illustration from one of Trinity's incunables (books printed before 1501).
This 1483 edition of The Play of Chess by Jacobus de Cessolis was translated by William Caxton, and it is currently part of the Library's Fun and Games display.
The Conclave could do the funniest thing...
But enjoy the below thread instead! #PopeJoan #FemaleClergy #Censorship #WyrdWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #woodcuts #earlymodern #woodcutwednesday #booktwitter #printhistory #bookhistory #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
The Train Journey (1939) a woodcut print self portrait by Tirzah Garwood, depicted on a train from Lewes to Eastbourne with Mount Caburn hillfort, East Sussex in the distance
The Train Journey (1939) by the exceptional Tirzah Garwood
Her self-portrait, surrounded by semi-conscious commuters, has Mount Caburn hillfort #Sussex in the distance
#HillfortsWednesday #WoodcutWednesday
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first volume of _Kōkei saikyūhō_ 『広恵済急方』 open to the title page (at right, with pub. date) and first page of the preface which begins, "それ、人の世に有る折にふれて、病無きこと能はず" (roughly, "As we know, there is no way through life without getting sick at some point"). The preface text is in a beautifully soft, flowing but clean and evenly spaced cursive hand, kana and kanji mixed (no furigana).
A double spread from volume 1 (the book is in 3 vols) showing the heads of two patients, each being squished/poked by big strong hands--the patients' expressions are both dull and pained at the same time.
Came for the lovely script (to use in my paleography class), stayed for the long-suffering expressions (can we massage the pain away?)
--a couple of spreads from _Kōkei saikyūhō_ 『広恵済急方』 (Kansei 寛政 1 [1789]) for #WoodblockWednesday, via the Waseda Kotenseki collection. Link next...
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Japanese woodblock printed book open to the title page (right), i.e. the inside front cover, and frontispiece (left), i.e. verso of folio 1. The image shows a gnarly old guy with straggly hair and unruly if short facial hair, with a protuding chin -- it's a striking image, the more so as it's a monochrome line drawing. The title page is in a clear but soft seal script, with my transcription pasted in in blue, thus: 金龍道人題辞／売茶翁偈語／附名公茶器銘／平安／通書堂梓 Above the portrait the name Jakuchū is inscribed, plus one of his seals (?) and some ownership seals are in the page gutter.
Today is #WoodblockWednesday, so here's one from the steeped tea 煎茶 files: a portrait of the Sage of Sencha, Baisaō 売茶翁 himself, from a sketch done by Itō Jakuchū 伊藤若冲. The image serves as frontispiece for the Old Tea Seller's posthumous collection, _Baisaō gego_『売茶翁偈語』...
#WoodcutWednesday
Dark blue cover of traditional Japanese stitchbound book with printed title slip (daisen 題箋） reading _Kindai yasa inja_ 『近代艶隠者』, with the foretitle (tsunogaki 角書き) "Fusō" 扶桑 (i.e. Japan), and the volume number 1.
same volume open to last page of table of contents (right) and first page of opening story (left). Script includes extensive kanji usage, but nearly all have furigana glosses for easier reading.
first double-spread (mihiraki 見開き) illustration from the first story in vol. 1 of same book: depicts a figure (Kannon?) holding a lotus blossom, half-kneeling, resting cheek on hand, beside a rocky shored pond with lotus blossoms and leaves.
For #WoodblockWednesday a couple of images from a remarkable copy of a fascinating book--came across it in my seminar on sencha 煎茶, but it connects to so many other things. The book is _Fusō Kindai yasa inja_ 『扶桑 近代艶隠者』, written by Ōbaku 黄檗 zen monk Sairoken Kyōsen 西鷺軒橋泉 (n.d.)...
#WoodcutWednesday
Twisty woodcut ornament in book about wars in Hungary.
Another view of the same dripping ornament, shown slightly lower on the page.
TWO Chandeliers?
That's Overkill!
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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photo of the 1480 rood screen with choir stalls behind.
#WoodcutWednesday
The church boasts a fine restored rood screen from about 1480, showcasing medieval craftsmanship. It also features choir stalls with misericords, and reset piscinae and sedilia which fell into disuse with the chancel extension.
double-page spread illustration with embedded text, from Ikku's kibyōshi 黄表紙 (about which more in next post). There is story text above the image, and some dialogue in the picture itself. At right a large wolf (well, a human shape with a wolf's head) looks intently from behind a tree at a man in courier's gear, carrying a message stick, running away on the left-hand page.
Late in the day, but just time for a #WoodblockWednesday post: from a kibyōshi we're reading this week, w/ Jippensha Ikku 十返舎一九 doing dual service as author & illustrator. The book is a collection of tall tales told over a cup of tea to while away the tedium of early spring rain...
#WoodcutWednesday
double page spread monochrome illustration: at right in a small boat a woman (Ikkyū's former nursemaid) sits holding up an unfurled painting with a fish-shaped empty space in it -- an aura leads from there across to the left-hand page where a gigantic carp is about to dive into the water -- on its back stands the young monk Ikkyū.
Hump day done, mostly, so here's a #WoodcutWednesday (or #WoodblockWednesday?) print to celebrate. This one is a frontispiece (kuchi-e 口絵) from the long serial gōkan _Kana hōgo Ikkyū sōshi_ 『仮名反古一休草紙』 (pub. 嘉永 Ka'ei 5 - Bunkyū 文久 4 [1852-1864]). Ikkyū is riding on the back of a giant carp...
