tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50281968292232049802024-03-05T18:00:42.827-08:00For The Love of Old BooksFor The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-44210517011097306922011-03-19T18:37:00.000-07:002011-03-19T19:09:53.359-07:00From Children's book to fabric<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/523451" title="Mary Frances Cooking by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="Mary Frances Cooking" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0052/3451/rmary_frances_fabric_on_navy_shop_preview.png" /></a><br />
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Once I saw the book The Mary Frances Cook Book, I fell in love with the illustrations.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5316794483/" title="DSC08861 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC08861" height="100" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5050/5316794483_274e027f54_t.jpg" width="83" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The pages inside the book are yellow with age, but I find it only adds to the charm.</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5316794483/" title="DSC08861 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC08861" height="100" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5050/5316794483_274e027f54_t.jpg" width="83" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am sure that Katherine Hepburn must have had a copy of this edition, probably sitting next to her Oscar.</span></span><br />
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Master Musicians, a book for layers, singers & listeners was written by J. Cuthbert Hadden. This volume was published in 1911 by T. N. Foulis Edinburgh.<br />
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I love when the papers in an old book have jagged edges, and there is a lovely heavy brown paper boasting photographs of each of the fourteen illustrations of the great composers. A tissue page is protecting each bookplate.<br />
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The book is 254 pages, and there is a lovely hint of gold leafing on the top pages.<br />
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PREFACE by J. Cuthbert Hadden<br />
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"The only thing requiring to be said by way of preface to t his book is, that it does not pretend to be critical. Technicalities have been expressly avoided. It is about the men themselves rather than about their music that I have chosen to write. Further, I have had in view the amateur rather than the professional, and the young reader rather than the adult; though I would fain hope that the book may interest all who love and practice the art of Bach and Beethoven."<br />
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The book is in wonderful condition.<br />
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Adding to the charm of the book, there are a few pencil markings in the book, indicating obvious study of some aspiring young musician.<br />
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A wonderful addition to a collector's library or the gift of music for a special friend.<br />
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This lovely treasure is in my etsy shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/59691230/master-musicians-a-book-for-players">For The Love of Old Books</a>.For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-36825978972669826592010-11-11T15:21:00.000-08:002010-11-11T15:26:55.607-08:00Little Women, 1947<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7pJpjr6xySZ0nW_iFn7hvidWVpAYkK-FwtR6taVNouMBnlP9FOKpWAEA6ebL6I0yAp92zFVN7MYHBJgeiZAeGiCD4Fvoyo6SL83qMK3EmriV2uZKBEfyP8uJ1C84oJIFWMQdM1-rvfY/s1600/DSC08543.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7pJpjr6xySZ0nW_iFn7hvidWVpAYkK-FwtR6taVNouMBnlP9FOKpWAEA6ebL6I0yAp92zFVN7MYHBJgeiZAeGiCD4Fvoyo6SL83qMK3EmriV2uZKBEfyP8uJ1C84oJIFWMQdM1-rvfY/s640/DSC08543.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">E</span></b>veryone knows how much I adore everything that Louisa May Alcott has written. Can't you just see Jo running up that walkway into Orchard House?<br />
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Published in 1947, the illustrations in this book are gorgeous.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876478938/" title="Little Women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4876478938_dc0765a985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>The quality in the papers that they used in this book let you know this edition was something really special. This copy is beautiful, clean and the end pages are blue.</div><div><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Illustrated by <b><i>Louis Jambor</i></b>, this book has the most incredible illustrations,<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876478938/" title="Little Women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4876478938_dc0765a985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>"The special contents of this edition are copyrighted, 1947 by Gorsset & Dunlap, Inc. printed by Kingsport press. Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee."<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Published by The Century Company in 1904.</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><b><i>Illustrated by Fanny Young Cory.</i></b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaTQv5R4DGukEZMCo162vpwTSALNqHKHediDU5bAnLWvojtH3SKkxyhuaVP8qre1K5LqbkJqgl94SdKT0f8raaIdW2GN4ddFNi6wDLAwQ3g76NnLZvEKkdzV_zpmD6_hvf_enxMTBQ3o/s1600/DSC08366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaTQv5R4DGukEZMCo162vpwTSALNqHKHediDU5bAnLWvojtH3SKkxyhuaVP8qre1K5LqbkJqgl94SdKT0f8raaIdW2GN4ddFNi6wDLAwQ3g76NnLZvEKkdzV_zpmD6_hvf_enxMTBQ3o/s640/DSC08366.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books written by Jane Austen.</span><br />
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</span></span>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-19110451074301788622010-11-01T14:10:00.000-07:002010-11-08T14:33:22.404-08:00Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij6B5v1yMnYd0b7YH7FTCfOMVl38W_vYW_2w4z3FI0bnj23BxBHZmiylP10CMeKPqSGzY6ElZjgyZbI0_qnhkyHOrkt1YXaypZeoG4vaM-8CuktsI-MsY8F4JiuZLF2cbG6WZHrj1L8lI/s1600/alice+book+nine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij6B5v1yMnYd0b7YH7FTCfOMVl38W_vYW_2w4z3FI0bnj23BxBHZmiylP10CMeKPqSGzY6ElZjgyZbI0_qnhkyHOrkt1YXaypZeoG4vaM-8CuktsI-MsY8F4JiuZLF2cbG6WZHrj1L8lI/s640/alice+book+nine.jpg" width="474" /></a></div>Sometimes when I am on the hunt in my favorite old and rare book shops, I find something really really special.<br />
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One of the prints inside this amazing book is a print of Orchard House dated 1838.<br />
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I took the image and hid her in the hot air balloon,<br />
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and of course I put one in the moon.<br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/360733" title="A Story in the Moon by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="A Story in the Moon" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0036/0733/vintage-moon_ed_preview.png" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>There was a story in the moon, and the forest waited patiently for the play to begin.</b></i></span><br />
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The trees were created using Vintage objects and digitally painted, they dance along the border at the bottom of the fabric. If you click on the image below you will see what it looks like in fabric. I created a centered image and printed a fat quarter in linen-canvas for my wall hanging.<br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/309441" title="2011 Orchard House Calendar Wall Hanging by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="2011 Orchard House Calendar Wall Hanging" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0030/9441/2011_calendar_rotated_preview.png" /></a><br />
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This fabric design has a melody of coordinates in my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/designs?view=2064">c</a>alendar collection. <br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/360733" title="A Story in the Moon by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="A Story in the Moon" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0036/0733/vintage-moon_ed_preview.png" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/309442" title="2011 Calendar by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="2011 Calendar " src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0030/9442/Wall_Calender_2011_preview.png" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/360731" title="The Vintage Tree by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="The Vintage Tree" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0036/0731/3340593813_d1667bc135_b_ed_preview.png" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/360727" title="A Vintage Forest by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="A Vintage Forest" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0036/0727/vintage_forest_fabric_ed_preview.png" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/explore/309453" title="There was a story in the moon design by karenharveycox on Spoonflower - custom fabric"><img alt="There was a story in the moon design" src="http://www.spoonflower.com/design_thumbnails/0030/9453/There_was_a_story_in_the_moon_fabric_design_preview.png" /></a><br />
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This fabric is available for sale in my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/309441">Spoonflower Gallery</a>.For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-27495620753419871072010-10-05T08:21:00.000-07:002010-10-05T11:47:32.551-07:00The Book of Birds<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054627104/" title="the book of birds by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="the book of birds" height="439" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5054627104_4afaa02b7a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054474699/" title="DSC07980 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07980" height="85" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5054474699_bd3523fd41_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>These two volumes are The First Work Presenting in Full Color all the major species of the United States and Canada. Each book measures 10 1/4 x 7 inches. Volume I is 345 pages, plus an index. Volume II is 363 pages, plus an index.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054007489/" title="bird 11 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="bird 11" height="504" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5054007489_9b3f0f2d2c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054474699/" title="DSC07980 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07980" height="85" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5054474699_bd3523fd41_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>When I found these lovely editions, I was taken with the many color illustrations as well as the black and white photographs, maps and renderings of birds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054007395/" title="bird ten by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="bird ten" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/5054007395_e9f2637094_z.jpg" width="444" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054474699/" title="DSC07980 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07980" height="85" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5054474699_bd3523fd41_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Volume Two contains, owls, woodpeckers, flycatchers, crown jays, orioles, creepers, thrushes, swallows, tanagers, wrens, warblers, hummingbirds, finches and sparrows.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054007229/" title="bird eight by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="bird eight" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5054007229_8d86a750c2_z.jpg" width="409" /></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5054474699/" title="DSC07980 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07980" height="543" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5054474699_bd3523fd41_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-10554746213711562082010-09-24T10:43:00.000-07:002010-09-24T12:03:49.102-07:00Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz-ZdqpchwHY28qxYV__GtbiBBIEzgUWftDAS2-SYlR75Vr08yW2vFa9Cy2a7l1qeDjyxdK0Y5IfvlBK3EiCvHeF7wtrZvaOOqaWRD0ef9GF2IAbSLcbqUnvME3WJsI1GHQBg3s-D3jOg/s1600/longfellow+three.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz-ZdqpchwHY28qxYV__GtbiBBIEzgUWftDAS2-SYlR75Vr08yW2vFa9Cy2a7l1qeDjyxdK0Y5IfvlBK3EiCvHeF7wtrZvaOOqaWRD0ef9GF2IAbSLcbqUnvME3WJsI1GHQBg3s-D3jOg/s640/longfellow+three.jpg" width="606" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="description" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; width: 414px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Standing at the very town of Concord, Massachusetts I read the poem by Longfellow of The MIdnight Ride of Paul Revere. I had taken the book to photograph it in Concord and then onto <a href="http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=lexington+green&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=lPWcTOONMsL58AaU99lu&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQsAQwAw&biw=1282&bih=940">Lexington Green</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I photographed the book late one afternoon at a bridge in Concord, and then caught the last of the afternoon light in Lexington Green. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLaZGRywPazakwT876zr8g7Nbv8LbFcZHaoTW4kTX-k2Z8o55UW0dvrfPT54sNefOjvzB8FHkMlXuQM56cYRTzAj2ibZPqjWnAf5wS3EnxZqXs_oknTnzTgPyHy4CEtSgVdlgvUTl-eGM/s1600/longfellow+four.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLaZGRywPazakwT876zr8g7Nbv8LbFcZHaoTW4kTX-k2Z8o55UW0dvrfPT54sNefOjvzB8FHkMlXuQM56cYRTzAj2ibZPqjWnAf5wS3EnxZqXs_oknTnzTgPyHy4CEtSgVdlgvUTl-eGM/s640/longfellow+four.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="description" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0px; width: 414px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is the very place that Longfellow wrote about in his moving poem.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This poem along with a host of others is inside this lovely old volume. My American History teacher would have loved this book. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7fK82KO3jEU0hLut60bq-vufMecJymZlyk8M6ZjAL7xZnp7GjGLv_dLdp_SsSiM2OR9ed_uj-z3bsGtXikasxednfECV-IcU7iIHKvyNzDIxrX-CF1HxMDAQwSUyEH7Sd06Syu-whuU/s1600/longfellow+eight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7fK82KO3jEU0hLut60bq-vufMecJymZlyk8M6ZjAL7xZnp7GjGLv_dLdp_SsSiM2OR9ed_uj-z3bsGtXikasxednfECV-IcU7iIHKvyNzDIxrX-CF1HxMDAQwSUyEH7Sd06Syu-whuU/s640/longfellow+eight.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmLbzuo8l0MHIB3wif298nuEhI9zCSby4yFnm-LfAYEUB3cJjHxVM4wYimn_R-oD_M7YVrYu0558ooqMlbeRLTn1z_YSsYVbfx8CAjpnkb3oAion-sHU78ZDye2ZNSHifBzvl5GNzdOE/s1600/longfellow+seven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmLbzuo8l0MHIB3wif298nuEhI9zCSby4yFnm-LfAYEUB3cJjHxVM4wYimn_R-oD_M7YVrYu0558ooqMlbeRLTn1z_YSsYVbfx8CAjpnkb3oAion-sHU78ZDye2ZNSHifBzvl5GNzdOE/s640/longfellow+seven.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I just placed this book in </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/56859433/favorite-poems-of-henry-wadsworth"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">my etsy shop For The Love of Old Books</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> the other day, but just photographed the other pages yesterday. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hope you enjoyed listening to one of the poems in this wonderful treasure of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>I guess what caught my eye at first glance when I spotted this book was the beautiful binding, and that the gold leafing is on all corners of the pages. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5009026782/" title="DSC07913 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07913" height="634" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5009026782_34d9905786_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>A lovely scroll design in gold and an illustration are on the front of the book, and the binding. I love the way gold looks against the deep navy blue cover.<br />
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<blockquote><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Venice has long borne in the imagination of the world a distinctive position, something of the character of a great enchantress, a magician of the seas. Her growth between the water and the sky; her great palaces, solid and splendid, built, so to speak, on nothing; the wonderful glory of light and reflection about her; the glimmer of incessant brightness and movement; the absence of all these harsh, artificial sounds which vex the air in other towns, but which in her are replace by harmonies of human voices, and by the liquid tinkle of the waves...all these unusual characteristics combine to make her a wonder and a prodigy."</span></span></i></b></blockquote><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>This book was written by Mrs. Oliphant. Mrs. Oliphant first published The Makers of Venice in 1887. Margaret Oliphant (née Wilson) was born in Wallyford, near Edinburgh, on April 4, 1828.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5008425127/" title="DSC07919 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07919" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5008425127_78ee50d8a0_z.jpg" width="424" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>I love to visualize where an author might have written a book. I found a wonderful site that shows where she lived and gives <a href="http://www.mrsoliphant.org/houses">photographs of her homes</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5008425799/" title="DSC07920 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07920" height="631" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5008425799_c5e44bf5b3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>Mrs. Oliphant was quite an interesting person, and has quite an impressive body of work. A list of <a href="http://www.mrsoliphant.org/wiki:works:non-fiction">her non-fictional works</a> and <a href="http://www.mrsoliphant.org/wiki:works:novels">fictional novels,</a> as well as her journalism can be found <a href="http://www.mrsoliphant.org/wiki:life">on her web site.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5008424193/" title="DSC07918 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07918" height="536" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5008424193_b2b7c4bc59_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>Published in New York by A.L. Burt Publisher. Written by Mrs.Oliphant<br />
and illustrated by R. R. Holmes 1900<br />
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<i><b>Table of Contents</b></i><br />
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I. The Doges. <br />
II. By sea and land. <br />
III. The painters. <br />
IV. Men of letters. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5008426863/" title="DSC07921 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07921" height="328" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5008426863_7fcfa21bc6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>The book contains 382 pages, filled with gorgeous black and white illustration plates. Edition: Reprint<br />
Book condition is very good.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5009026782/" title="DSC07913 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07913" height="634" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5009026782_34d9905786_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>A dark blue hard cover with gold gilt lettering and design.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5008421387/" title="DSC07915 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07915" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5008421387_550da5a12e_z.jpg" width="595" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>There is a photograph of Leonardo Loredango at the front of the book. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Leonardo Loredan</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Loredano</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">) (November 16, 1436 – June 21, 1521) was the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Doge of Venice">doge</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> from 1501 until his death, in the course of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="War of the League of Cambrai">War of the League of Cambrai</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5009027274/" title="DSC07914 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07914" height="485" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5009027274_04c1bd6bee_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5010784492/" title="DSC07932 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07932" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/5010784492_6785433769_t.jpg" width="56" /></a>The book is in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/56861827/the-makers-of-venice-doges-conquerors">etsy shop, For The Love of Old Books</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/5009580012/" title="My creation by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="My creation" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5009580012_618e34fbfe_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-11664386909318424892010-09-17T08:09:00.001-07:002010-09-17T08:12:06.826-07:00Take Home A Smile<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4184058203/" title="DSC04549 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04549" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4184058203_510525c546.jpg" width="451" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4322114349/" title="Joy can be found in a simple vignette by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Joy can be found in a simple vignette" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4322114349_fa2f4b6fb4_t.jpg" width="68" /></a>I love old books and my shelves are full of old treasures that house lovely words and thoughts. One of my favorite writers and poets is Edgar A. Guest, he wrote a little volume called A Heap o' Livin', which was first published in 1916, and renewed in 1944.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4183147093/" title="DSC04540 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04540" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4183147093_a375605a6e.jpg" width="288" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4322114349/" title="Joy can be found in a simple vignette by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Joy can be found in a simple vignette" height="100" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4322114349_fa2f4b6fb4_t.jpg" width="68" /></a>Hard to believe that we could read words written in a different chapter of history and have them soothe our souls in a new day such as this.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/429992155/" title="Charring Cross Road by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Charring Cross Road" height="375" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/429992155_ee4e52423a.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4251647174/" title="DSC04654 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04654" height="75" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4251647174_688e6874d8_s.jpg" width="75" /></a>I was feeling like I was carrying around the weight of the world on my shoulders the other day. So, I did what any Long Island girl would do...I went to the beach.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828136113/" title="DSC02966 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC02966" height="348" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/3828136113_69c49a58c9.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4251647174/" title="DSC04654 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04654" height="75" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4251647174_688e6874d8_s.jpg" width="75" /></a>I brought Edgar Guest's words with me to remind me that my chapter is not much different than many people who have come before me and many people who will come long after I am gone.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828135469/" title="DSC02977 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC02977" height="334" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3828135469_99408925e2.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4251647174/" title="DSC04654 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04654" height="75" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4251647174_688e6874d8_s.jpg" width="75" /></a>I let the sound of the waves hitting the shore remove my worries and the sound of the seagulls cries still my soul. I read Edgar's words in this poem called Take Home A Smile, and let the verses holding words of comfort replace my scattered ones.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828212511/" title="My creation by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="My creation" height="500" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3828212511_dcd2105bfa.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4251646904/" title="DSC04649 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04649" height="75" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4251646904_db936fea1e_s.jpg" width="75" /></a>The words in Edgar Guest's poem comforted me just the way my Grandmother's words would often do over a cup of tea. Words can make me feel so safe when the world is spinning out of control.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828933826/" title="DSC02975 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC02975" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3828933826_ddb75b0087.jpg" width="334" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Take Home A Smile</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>"Take home a smile; forget the petty cares,<br />
The dull, grim grind of all the day's affairs;<br />
The day is done, come be by yourself awhile:<br />
Tonight, to those who wait, take home a smile.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828933022/" title="DSC02973 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC02973" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3828933022_e5f2ef90b3.jpg" width="494" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Take home a smile; don't scatter grief and gloom<br />
Where laughter and light hearts should always bloom;<br />
While though you've traveled many a dusty mile,<br />
Footsore and weary, still take home a smile.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3828930536/" title="DSC02968 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC02968" height="334" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/3828930536_02a01eaa1a.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Take home a smile - it is not much to do,<br />
But much it means to them who wait for you;<br />
You can be brave for such a little while;<br />
The day of doubt is done, take home a smile.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3940058466/" title="DSC06000 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC06000" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3940058466_d14b05faa5.jpg" width="494" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Courage isn't a brilliant dash,<br />
A daring deed in a moment's flash;<br />
It isn't an instantaneous thing<br />
Born of despair with a sudden spring.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3940059328/" title="DSC06003 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC06003" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/3940059328_a3b87b8318.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>It isn't a creature of flickered hope<br />
Or the final tug at a slipping rope;<br />
But it's something deep in the soul<br />
That is working always to serve some plan.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3871725831/" title="DSC05852 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC05852" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3871725831_ca68b9d3f4.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Courage isn't the last resort<br />
In the work of life or the game of sport;<br />
It isn't a thing that a man can call<br />
At some future time when he's apt to fall;<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3471598058/" title="DSC01186 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC01186" height="315" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3471598058_3b3b2c9d66.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>If he hasn't it now, he will have it not,<br />
When the strain is great and the pace is hot.<br />
For who would strive for a distant goal<br />
Must always have courage within his soul.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3939306365/" title="DSC06007 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC06007" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3939306365_42d212543f.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Courage isn't a dazzling light<br />
That flashes and passes away from sight;<br />
It's a slow, unwavering, ingrained trait<br />
With the patience to work and the strength to wait,<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3470950667/" title="My creation by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="My creation" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3470950667_8109f6b86b.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>It's part of a man when his skies are blue,<br />
It's part of him when he has work to do.<br />
The brave man never is freed of it.<br />
He has it when there is no need of it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3471594110/" title="DSC01177 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC01177" height="402" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3645/3471594110_e47a5578fd.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Courage was never designed for show;<br />
It isn't a thing that can come and go;<br />
It's written in victory and defeat<br />
Ane every trial a man may meet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>It's part of his hours, his days and his years,<br />
Back of his smiles and behind his tears.<br />
Courage is more than daring deed:<br />
It's the breath of life and a strong man's creed."<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Sometimes we carry the weight of cares that are borrowed, and we wear a long face to prove it's heaviness. We forget that it takes a little courage to know when to retreat to a place all alone.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4322114349/" title="Joy can be found in a simple vignette by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Joy can be found in a simple vignette" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4322114349_fa2f4b6fb4.jpg" width="341" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>To return to our day and our lot in life and remember to have the courage to bring home a smile. To give yourself time to sort out our your feelings and make sense of the day. To bring our burdens to the Lord and have the faith to leave them there.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4318451423/" title="mosaic monday sunset by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="mosaic monday sunset" height="422" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4318451423_eb04589855.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4250875369/" title="DSC04668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC04668" height="67" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4250875369_5de5659c38_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>The beach is always a wonderful place to leave your troubles and cleanse your mind. So, just in case one is not nearby use this post as a place to renew your spirit and cast your cares to the Lord, build a bit of courage to run the race again...and when you leave remember to take home a smile.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4322856570/" title="Messages in the sunset by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Messages in the sunset" height="325" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4322856570_8b2c5c52d4.jpg" width="500" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-40953733150405703432010-09-08T12:39:00.000-07:002010-09-16T08:14:41.770-07:00A Stamp Collector's Dream<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b></span> walked through the aisles of a nearby Antique shop in search of a nice copy of Little Women for a customer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">There on the table sat this book. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Postage Stamps and Their Collection</span></span></b>. It had the familiar cover that can only belong to a book from the late 1800's.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">I imagined some stamp collector out there embracing the pages of this book, the way I would holding a Louisa May Alcott treasure.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">According to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:81asBR7d5I0J:www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/+postage+stamps+and+their+collection+1897+l.upcott+gill+170,+strand,+w.c.&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari">The Association of British Philatelic Societies, Ltd</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">. the Who Was Who in Philately is listed on their web site.</span><br />
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Who Was Who in Philately, was Mr. Oliver Firth, who wrote the book <b><i>Postage Stamps and Their Collection</i></b>:</div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Oliver d.1913 age 52. Resided at Baildon, Yorks. Author of '</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Postage Stamps and their Collection</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">' [1897]. President Leeds P.S. and Bradford P.S."</span></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqX_0DGnaeW6lFNohu1MBbd6SgR7HvkKmHzfT6V3YlOqBxZiHG_WlMBIkXhKyjPGi12QE2g_AmFZpu7n0iwMBQSu1VGVa1wRPeK3neYIf8kShG-TrTo15lYqx1sC3WhfYxAYE_UuEZiU/s1600/postage+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqX_0DGnaeW6lFNohu1MBbd6SgR7HvkKmHzfT6V3YlOqBxZiHG_WlMBIkXhKyjPGi12QE2g_AmFZpu7n0iwMBQSu1VGVa1wRPeK3neYIf8kShG-TrTo15lYqx1sC3WhfYxAYE_UuEZiU/s640/postage+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b>hen I found this book, published in 1897, I thought it so rare and unusual. </span></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><blockquote>At the time Oliver Firth was President of the Bradford Philatelic Society. Past President of the Leeds Philatelic Society, Member of the Philatelic Society of London.</blockquote></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopxPsO483gLsdArK4hb9n7aTvRIyPuLAEEOm1560i24gv5ZCqKdlBV4a25ZHQVlcAoLrMgMT9KZooG-idcDAVGTZI0REhNW2l1GfKGunfeBifrRZu6-I8fQk0MH6TxZkR5xmwWeHf904/s1600/DSC07636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopxPsO483gLsdArK4hb9n7aTvRIyPuLAEEOm1560i24gv5ZCqKdlBV4a25ZHQVlcAoLrMgMT9KZooG-idcDAVGTZI0REhNW2l1GfKGunfeBifrRZu6-I8fQk0MH6TxZkR5xmwWeHf904/s200/DSC07636.JPG" width="133" /></a></div>The book begins with a brief history of Philately, and goes on to describe within it's chapters all things related to the collection of stamps.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The front and back of the book are filled with graphics belonging to advertising at that time.</span></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The book is covered in a hardcover leather maroon with gold leafing letters in script with the title Postage Stamps and their Collection.</span></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The book has been lovingly worn and obviously used by it's previous owner. Yet it is in beautiful condition.</span></div><div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYzhhctL2s4Su50czliIFeeQ0JqbxE9ZVsOZxu97ZprxZGTu7dDE-UGdILz-qF5cG2Yv_O7aZKWyzy8aD5QdR19kfCnp6Xs6nDq_8mCi5KxCkA4kMbV_DD4S7BD4eTBrUkPy1KJGQ3Mk/s1600/Postage+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYzhhctL2s4Su50czliIFeeQ0JqbxE9ZVsOZxu97ZprxZGTu7dDE-UGdILz-qF5cG2Yv_O7aZKWyzy8aD5QdR19kfCnp6Xs6nDq_8mCi5KxCkA4kMbV_DD4S7BD4eTBrUkPy1KJGQ3Mk/s640/Postage+10.jpg" width="572" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I am sure the avid stamp collector would swoon over this wonderful old book. Just listed in <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/55842212/postage-stamps-and-their-collectors-by">my etsy shop, For The Love of Old Books</a></span></i></div>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-83624564981703210792010-09-07T13:15:00.000-07:002010-09-15T15:20:57.061-07:00There on a shelf in the middle of Vintage ribbons...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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There on a shelf in the middle of Vintage ribbons and notions,<br />
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</div>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-14464777642823279532010-09-05T07:59:00.000-07:002010-09-05T09:55:04.974-07:00Can you believe this?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkunzyZuzjDfqjo0RXOTtXQL7AmG14whdkJXS1QrgccA83IfzWS9hpSdUd52M0AikY1oRhg7IAFguS6ixdc4rSzA1SpY0ItahghlJQQ99pWBLfY-HvReS-yWpgH79vaFh2zYh3JmQdU_w/s1600/book+cover+clean.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513447962684982114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkunzyZuzjDfqjo0RXOTtXQL7AmG14whdkJXS1QrgccA83IfzWS9hpSdUd52M0AikY1oRhg7IAFguS6ixdc4rSzA1SpY0ItahghlJQQ99pWBLfY-HvReS-yWpgH79vaFh2zYh3JmQdU_w/s640/book+cover+clean.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" width="430" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>I have come across many different versions of Little Women,<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876478938/" title="Little Women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4876478938_dc0765a985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Illustrated by Louis Jambor, this book has the most incredible illustrations, and ones that I have not seen before.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876478938/" title="Little Women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4876478938_dc0765a985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>"The special contents of this edition are copyrighted, 1947 by Gorsset & Dunlap, Inc. printed by Kingsport press. Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee."<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876484276/" title="Little women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4876484276_743999581e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I </span></b></span>placed it in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/55565315/little-women-louisa-may-alcott"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;"><b>Etsy Shop For The Love of Old Books </b></span></a>today. I am so excited that I found another one of these editions. There's a little extra bonus, a book sleeve which was responsible for keeping the cover of the book so clean.</div><div><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874082142/" title="DSC07120 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07120" height="334" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4874082142_6359e018d8.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>F</b></span>or your listening pleasure, here is the radio program of Harriet Reisen being interviewed. Her latest book <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Women Behind LIttle Women</span> is wonderful. I met Harriet at a book signing in Concord last year, and she shares my passion for <i><b>Little Women</b></i>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874081250/" title="DSC07119 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07119" height="428" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4874081250_a39087fa03_z.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-20868235519933360522010-08-09T11:06:00.000-07:002010-09-15T15:21:13.465-07:00Little Women, 1947<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2iwvLaVKVx4dYY3AW4kNjNtYFKFm6ngQY8LnnbO17g5130fonJ3CHi3sYsGBWDUR78s0Nlp-mBlnKoJfXuqiB8MTYVjUcUidgxzkVqB39UzsZYj19r4vN_D5dS0MAu7U6eiR2AHPRAxE/s1600/4874074616_9b9ee0f1dd.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503474661805547138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2iwvLaVKVx4dYY3AW4kNjNtYFKFm6ngQY8LnnbO17g5130fonJ3CHi3sYsGBWDUR78s0Nlp-mBlnKoJfXuqiB8MTYVjUcUidgxzkVqB39UzsZYj19r4vN_D5dS0MAu7U6eiR2AHPRAxE/s400/4874074616_9b9ee0f1dd.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Everyone knows how much I adore everything that Louisa May Alcott has written. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874078374/" title="DSC07115 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07115" height="334" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4874078374_da478051b0.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>I have come across many different versions of Little Women, <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>The quality in the papers that they used in this book let you know this edition was something really special.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>Illustrated by Louis Jambor, this book has the most incredible illustrations, and ones that I have not seen before.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876478938/" title="Little Women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4876478938_dc0765a985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>"The special contents of this edition are copyrighted, 1947 by Gorsset & Dunlap, Inc. printed by Kingsport press. Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee."<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4876484276/" title="Little women by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="Little women" height="640" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4876484276_743999581e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>I placed it in my <a href="http://fortheloveofoldbooks.etsy.com/">etsy shop for the love of old books</a> today.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874080506/" title="DSC07118 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07118" height="67" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4874080506_51241f4eea_t.jpg" width="100" /></a>For your listening pleasure, here is the radio program of Little Women starring June Allison and many other amazing actors.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4874081250/" title="DSC07119 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC07119" height="428" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4874081250_a39087fa03_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-90139331155291047762010-07-25T06:43:00.000-07:002010-07-25T08:49:02.656-07:00The Wind in The Willows<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826541793/" title="wind in the willows five by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4826541793_5680904eb0.jpg" width="500" height="427" alt="wind in the willows five" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">T</span></b></span></span>here on the corner of a lovely table, was a blue hardcover book with a gold leaf illustration of a frog wearing an elaborate costume. <div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826543493/" title="DSC06936 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4826543493_614585db94.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06936" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I picked up the book and read the spine. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i>THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. </i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><b></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826543213/" title="DSC06934 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4826543213_8bddf10a14.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06934" /></a></span></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Yes, the illustration is of</span> Toad. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">I was thrilled and knew I had found a lost treasure.<br /></span></i></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><b><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4827148932/" title="wind in the willows eight by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4827148932_6f57cdee72.jpg" width="500" height="401" alt="wind in the willows eight" /></a></i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">I</span> carefully looked though the pages, and was thrilled to find the illustrations I have come to love as a child, and those from my own daughter's childhood.</i></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826543919/" title="DSC06937 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4826543919_16813315a8.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06937" /></a></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">his 1940 edition, by Kenneth Grahame was illustrated by the famous Arthur Rackham. This is the last book that Arthur Rackham illustrated before he died.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826542255/" title="wind in willows two by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4826542255_c8c1682b20.jpg" width="500" height="426" alt="wind in willows two" /></a></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">The book is in perfect condition, with all bookplates inside. Twelve color illustrations in all.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826542009/" title="wind in willows one by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4826542009_ab91bf3c72.jpg" width="500" height="323" alt="wind in willows one" /></a></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">There are also some lovely black and white renderings at the introduction of each chapter.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4827149258/" title="wind in willows three by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4827149258_5236f84639.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="wind in willows three" /></a></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">In the introduction, there is a letter from Theodore Roosevelt sharing had much he has loved this book.</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4827279542/" title="Wind in the willows by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4827279542_d6d2d9f356.jpg" width="500" height="419" alt="Wind in the willows" /></a><br /><br />The book measures 9 x 6 x 9 inches, with a lovely blue hardcover with gold lettering.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4827152106/" title="DSC06941 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4827152106_a2e6076cef.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06941" /></a><br /><br />This book was published by Heritage Press, and printed in 1940. The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, A limited Edition Club.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4827149812/" title="window in willows six by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4827149812_bed507a542.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="window in willows six" /></a><br /><br />I understand that in 2012 there will be a new movie based on the book. Such a rare book, and so lovingly cared for, one would think that it was a collectible sitting on a shelf all these years.<br /></span></i></div></div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4826584375/" title="The Wind in the Willows by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4826584375_fbe631553b.jpg" width="500" height="467" alt="The Wind in the Willows" /></a><br /><br />The Wind In The Willows, placed in my etsy shop, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/52281478/the-wind-in-the-willows-1940"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333399;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">For The Love of Old Books</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333399;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">.</span></b></span>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-79207883295777798702010-07-22T08:42:00.000-07:002010-07-22T09:06:46.460-07:00Halls of Fame of MY BOOKHOUSE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvqxZBv03vNLCuup2FfWaAUxjNSs6kNxmwy3jYlUlFNPJE3NuLlHkldIgiUjsXQz-6cUzcOchuU2P6HkscPk-quK1dMYrLWl4vGvq1CkrNNKuf0TnVHavCm9ksn08zbbzGtsM95Hn6oo/s1600/my+book+house+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvqxZBv03vNLCuup2FfWaAUxjNSs6kNxmwy3jYlUlFNPJE3NuLlHkldIgiUjsXQz-6cUzcOchuU2P6HkscPk-quK1dMYrLWl4vGvq1CkrNNKuf0TnVHavCm9ksn08zbbzGtsM95Hn6oo/s400/my+book+house+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496757137151940018" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#339999;">HALLS OF FAME OF MY BOOKHOUSE</span> </span>was edited by Olive Beaupre' Miller.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I </span>was searching Brimfield's Antique Market last week for some treasures, and I found this delightful book. Published in Chicago in 1934, this lovely book is written so beautifully.<br /><br /><blockquote>"<span style="font-weight:bold;">Halls of Fame</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#336666;"><i><b>Within these high-guilt Halls of Fame<br />Hang portraits done in youth<br />Of those who built this Wonder-house<br />of beauty, life, and truth."</b></i></span></blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvmvzz2rNgkcicokC8ZVYrB_oLEy5IlnnPfroSPs0R3hNFnsuU8oGcAya25NI02X8equyj7BO2_EEFeNh89X33bQXsTvSJPS9nNYp1kfSkYn3GfwtvYOtcq3Ebw-AmpUE2bOex3PCmYEI/s1600/my+book+house+five.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvmvzz2rNgkcicokC8ZVYrB_oLEy5IlnnPfroSPs0R3hNFnsuU8oGcAya25NI02X8equyj7BO2_EEFeNh89X33bQXsTvSJPS9nNYp1kfSkYn3GfwtvYOtcq3Ebw-AmpUE2bOex3PCmYEI/s400/my+book+house+five.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496757155892487938" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">I</span>n this beautiful book of stories, are the childhood biographies of authors like John Keats, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, and the list goes on. These stories are written in such a charming way.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmuxAuQjIxeqRAr2Ty1tp-XDLyQ3ofZZroMvf99F4nGwQDdV4_H2GAe90FygMiCKm25yTnUDelkIXZbgXrvsgqYl-KJoUTUgkSbWclhOvQCrOR67Wc02Io5b1jYync1462UccJ5O90ns/s1600/my+book+house+2_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmuxAuQjIxeqRAr2Ty1tp-XDLyQ3ofZZroMvf99F4nGwQDdV4_H2GAe90FygMiCKm25yTnUDelkIXZbgXrvsgqYl-KJoUTUgkSbWclhOvQCrOR67Wc02Io5b1jYync1462UccJ5O90ns/s400/my+book+house+2_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496757134640054674" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">B</span>eautifully illustrated throughout with vivid colorful bookplates as well as black and white ones.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCRutcMJc0r5B1pGu8SJMN9mTW1FU1dyMRlFqg2aktIdeJa8cZFVIXSvgxLgW2GXOHoSUxhq9x_WsMwwUAaJSF34ph7P4ZExVa-OPMi4MPKiQVgOY6SuVuiYvXP7gtWFA0GBUhefU6XU/s1600/my+book+house+four.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCRutcMJc0r5B1pGu8SJMN9mTW1FU1dyMRlFqg2aktIdeJa8cZFVIXSvgxLgW2GXOHoSUxhq9x_WsMwwUAaJSF34ph7P4ZExVa-OPMi4MPKiQVgOY6SuVuiYvXP7gtWFA0GBUhefU6XU/s400/my+book+house+four.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496757882345867538" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">T</span>his book is 226 pages in all, the book is in perfect condition boasting a beautiful hard cover with a lovely illustration. There is a very in-depth index in the back of the book. This book was published in twelve volumes. This is Volume Twelve.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupVLfYhA-4LwmSAWgA2aOziogMeQ7xyMwsH6qZGNdmOAIt9k0W6sW8WRLDYZ_6guKIP6w_iyUMFh7LDErqwGUsPC9fyCKi3nVjJnntnGCvYIsO9_RUxrg5rA4b4VSYCZuOqzIg0QVVqE/s1600/My+Book+house.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupVLfYhA-4LwmSAWgA2aOziogMeQ7xyMwsH6qZGNdmOAIt9k0W6sW8WRLDYZ_6guKIP6w_iyUMFh7LDErqwGUsPC9fyCKi3nVjJnntnGCvYIsO9_RUxrg5rA4b4VSYCZuOqzIg0QVVqE/s400/My+Book+house.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496758140847102466" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">E</span>ach biography is written beautifully to capture a child's imagination.<br /><br /><b><i>William Wordsworth<br />A Boy of the Lake Country<br />"When the river Derwent has left the mountains to mirror on its bright blue waters and ruins of old castle towers, it flows along the margin of a grassy terrace where once a little cottage stood. In that cottage lived a boy of five whose playmate was the river."<br /></i></b><i><br /></i><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4R-ErocNxY02n5JsBogdasXqU8h-cYhUlF15rMOyCNC442pHRdHKPxxmnDfrqOF4RgJNJS_BQHCRJL55uVzkxgtJvlfv_HYMMG0fmf1ZV0G76RI6RJCF8FTGuDTwxbUZ4PuF0fEilMW8/s1600/my+book+house+six.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4R-ErocNxY02n5JsBogdasXqU8h-cYhUlF15rMOyCNC442pHRdHKPxxmnDfrqOF4RgJNJS_BQHCRJL55uVzkxgtJvlfv_HYMMG0fmf1ZV0G76RI6RJCF8FTGuDTwxbUZ4PuF0fEilMW8/s400/my+book+house+six.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496758033521264770" /></a><br /><br />Listed on my etsy shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/52079989/my-bookhouse-halls-of-fame"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;"><b>For The Love of Old Books.</b></span></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-31256224863346545142010-07-14T09:32:00.000-07:002010-07-14T10:30:56.395-07:00Tennyson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivY3mEZgeRND_K9MQ0HkCtzG3lUXpgo4MU5yldhqhvaNx-54ba_v68Ykq9diukyaPgWhadVgHQ5sIHEtA6xqBmc4AJqYFyiWkDITg6MiJStwaRyOTfm28SIk7XY0C2HbS593PxY7Jkes/s1600/il_fullxfull.158301362.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivY3mEZgeRND_K9MQ0HkCtzG3lUXpgo4MU5yldhqhvaNx-54ba_v68Ykq9diukyaPgWhadVgHQ5sIHEtA6xqBmc4AJqYFyiWkDITg6MiJStwaRyOTfm28SIk7XY0C2HbS593PxY7Jkes/s400/il_fullxfull.158301362.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493801504340821234" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">N</span></span></b></span>othing can bridge the time back into the past like losing yourself in an Antique book dating back to 1884. Especially when it is the beautiful <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson</b></span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJapnh_fFBgghtd2rIMFa06Asn0zn0l9F8Ej1TOTXD_X5-VG58qxYUXIreCpHK5kinI7rZu3D4VD_CoY1IYxZHVtnw9F5bHUo9Zb79DRzLNbpbqtTcaUdllqXpUl60fiheoC75_Msre3M/s1600/Tennyson+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJapnh_fFBgghtd2rIMFa06Asn0zn0l9F8Ej1TOTXD_X5-VG58qxYUXIreCpHK5kinI7rZu3D4VD_CoY1IYxZHVtnw9F5bHUo9Zb79DRzLNbpbqtTcaUdllqXpUl60fiheoC75_Msre3M/s400/Tennyson+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493801095556866770" /></a><br /><br />This book was <b>published in 1884</b> by the H.B. Nims & Company in Troy, N.Y.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf7qfz7suDEXi5ZTVXOreho-_9HOkmhCeU160A4Jn7Z8cqEU-jzZLoa4Qgay9KCw2e2-E3xZWkLRvzOYUA13qG9ah3s5B808gj7NfbY2iSehRo06NvvOk81w-lbN1PwuplxXIeXzr8Qg/s1600/il_fullxfull.158301657.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf7qfz7suDEXi5ZTVXOreho-_9HOkmhCeU160A4Jn7Z8cqEU-jzZLoa4Qgay9KCw2e2-E3xZWkLRvzOYUA13qG9ah3s5B808gj7NfbY2iSehRo06NvvOk81w-lbN1PwuplxXIeXzr8Qg/s400/il_fullxfull.158301657.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493801719141611106" /></a><br /><br />There are numerous illustrations in black and white engravings throughout.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6FEjd8HcP2dmeOIMfRcULE2OHddzQ_z07dgKXvI1XJvrZq5J3Yv1fB8U6TGfjiJm4TjU4c1npidB-4HGcD7usvNApvqNapyRq8vAHFoeAGGxQe2FL5yi6wtIf3zvt8D_bPy0J5ajlPdY/s1600/tennyson+eighteen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6FEjd8HcP2dmeOIMfRcULE2OHddzQ_z07dgKXvI1XJvrZq5J3Yv1fB8U6TGfjiJm4TjU4c1npidB-4HGcD7usvNApvqNapyRq8vAHFoeAGGxQe2FL5yi6wtIf3zvt8D_bPy0J5ajlPdY/s400/tennyson+eighteen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493803726370090514" /></a><br /><br />This beautiful edition boasts a gorgeous leather cover in dark green with gold leafing. The edges of the pages still have the lovely gold leaf visible.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqSI8XvyekRAdkaiDInwo5Z6ah2HODDhD-6AtaIQZwUWsvprNVliBmdFvcC1hmnQzIcgD19fvEOAQPwd0gkFEo_vl-g3B-WAvI1B_IX4pGI1sTjeohfBNF4HVaH5q0VC4T7Jtj0YdI-o/s1600/DSC06774.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqSI8XvyekRAdkaiDInwo5Z6ah2HODDhD-6AtaIQZwUWsvprNVliBmdFvcC1hmnQzIcgD19fvEOAQPwd0gkFEo_vl-g3B-WAvI1B_IX4pGI1sTjeohfBNF4HVaH5q0VC4T7Jtj0YdI-o/s400/DSC06774.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493803710869809122" /></a><br /><br />This volume is in lovely condition, with the exception of missing one of the first blank pages at the front. 398 pages in all measuring 6 1/2" x 10".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIT6BYIPpgJC_o2y0tH6fjog1880b6ZQHz4emWE-7CFZthF27SdgrMAnYcxYOH-bSaa_wPDgy0lkS36PxcuAID5nz2tnW3D3E7iJTKRyOwwgvnG8b6qui8RTr0lRDujG6kpLdAyyEXSE/s1600/tennyson+ten.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIT6BYIPpgJC_o2y0tH6fjog1880b6ZQHz4emWE-7CFZthF27SdgrMAnYcxYOH-bSaa_wPDgy0lkS36PxcuAID5nz2tnW3D3E7iJTKRyOwwgvnG8b6qui8RTr0lRDujG6kpLdAyyEXSE/s400/tennyson+ten.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493801088362089170" /></a><br /><br />All of the illustrations are amazing. I am going to create a custom bookplate from one of the illustrations inside this treasure for you saying This book belongs to.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFSbjG6Ooa-4DhNty0N6VpjkC34c1VrNKItplTVHhkmbrYEm5fJo2qh6VAkbKOXX70C3YMtssls8aBkYrVcbWJENyTlUKKmiOzIzrW8zqEYOwQIhjZm5uBdP65NYs0h0g7Nk2ql-PDaE/s1600/DSC06784.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFSbjG6Ooa-4DhNty0N6VpjkC34c1VrNKItplTVHhkmbrYEm5fJo2qh6VAkbKOXX70C3YMtssls8aBkYrVcbWJENyTlUKKmiOzIzrW8zqEYOwQIhjZm5uBdP65NYs0h0g7Nk2ql-PDaE/s400/DSC06784.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493803705444390130" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); "><b>The Mermaid</b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">"I would be a mermaid fair:</span></i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">I would sing to myself the whole of the day,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">with a comb of pearl I would comb my hair,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">and still as I comb'd I would sing and say</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">"Who is it loves me, who love not me?"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall, </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">low adown, low adown,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">From under my starry sea-bud crown</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">low adown, low adown</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">And I should look like a fountain of gold</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">springing alone</span></i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">with a shrill inner sound</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">over the throne</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">in the middle of the hall."</span></i></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>This very rare find is in<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/51493898/tennyson-illustrated-poetical-works"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>my shop For The Love of Old Books</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>.</b></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>You might enjoy listening to a poetry reading of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYB3kMLaLA">Tennyson's The Brook.</a></b></span></span></i></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4793385379/" title="DSC06763 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4793385379_0fe92baac9_b.jpg" width="686" height="1024" alt="DSC06763" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-5948136831137149972010-07-07T05:06:00.000-07:002010-07-07T08:55:14.777-07:00The Journal of BEATRIX POTTER<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770641391/" title="DSC06668 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4770641391_c5095936e7.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06668" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Having read the story of Peter Rabbit all throughout my girls childhood, I have often imagined what Mr. McGregor's flower garden actually looked like.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771277988/" title="DSC06670 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4771277988_0f0f34654b.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06670" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>As enchanting as a fairytale vegetable patch, I am sure.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771277452/" title="DSC06667 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4771277452_cc4699f5de.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06667" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Yesterday I found another treasure to add to my shop. Iwas browsing a book store specializing in rare and old children's books, I discovered this treasure. <span style="font-weight:bold;">THE JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER</span> from 1881 to 1897. Transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771284792/" title="DSC06694 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4771284792_f3ba314bec.jpg" width="500" height="314" alt="DSC06694" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Evidently Beatrix wanted her journal to be read only by her<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770644237/" title="DSC06680 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4770644237_ae3cb09b93.jpg" width="500" height="415" alt="DSC06680" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>and proceeded to have the journal in her own secret code.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770647659/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4770647659_ea2d5ece47.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06689" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Leslie Linder translated this beautiful work and published this book in 1966.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771284516/" title="DSC06690 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4771284516_110c90fb3d.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06690" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>"This Journal, which is a remarkable document was written only for her own eyes. It gives a first-hand account of Victorian life in the late 19th century and throws light on Beatrix Potter between the ages of 15 and 30, during which period comparatively little has hitherto been known."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771283714/" title="DSC06688 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4771283714_a2115fe420.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06688" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>"A collection of drawings and paintings selected and arranged by Mr. Leslie Linder and Mr. W. A. Herring with an Appreciation by Anne Carroll Moore.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770643955/" title="DSC06679 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4770643955_26d2ba2b5e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06679" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Here is a unique presentation of the work of Beatrix Potter from childhood through maturity, which reveals her greatness as an artist and in some measure explains the secret of her charm."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771282782/" title="DSC06686 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4771282782_0a2cbf44a3.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06686" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>Published in 1966 by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, London England. This book is filled with photographs of Beatrix, illustrations by Beatix Potter<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770643275/" title="DSC06677 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4770643275_5e95108e3e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06677" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>and several family tree fold out pages. The book is 438 pages.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770645421/" title="DSC06684 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4770645421_0504a3c61b.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06684" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>The book is in beautiful condition and has the original dust cover, also in beautiful condition.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770645865/" title="DSC06685 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4770645865_f69e89b7fc.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06685" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>"The volume is illustrated with pages from the Journal,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770642929/" title="DSC06676 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4770642929_d5305d6dff.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06676" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>examples of her drawings and water colors, and photographs of the Potter family and of some of the pages mentioned in the Journal.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4770644881/" title="DSC06682 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4770644881_cc521d0e12.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06682" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06689" /></a>There are 28 illustrations in color and 39 in monochrome, and the volume includes Family Trees and a comprehensive index." This treasure is now in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/50977671/the-journal-of-beatrix-potter-from-1881"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#336666;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">my shop, For The Love of Old Books</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#336666;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">.<br /></span></b></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4771311544/" title="DSC06689 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4771311544_a11d44d752.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="DSC06689" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-19663676173405993002010-06-30T04:17:00.000-07:002010-06-30T07:20:12.962-07:00LaFrance<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748911664/" title="DSC06663 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4748911664_2dbd3d8566.jpg" width="500" height="416" alt="DSC06663" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>H</b></span></span>ow lovely that yesterday while finding a lovely <i><a href="http://karenharveycox.blogspot.com/2010/06/lavender-dreams.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333399;"><b>Lavender Farm</b></span></a></i> filled with thoughts of Provence, I found a wonderful book containing glipses of Provence and other regions of France.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748284607/" title="DSC06649 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4748284607_705c98c3fb.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="DSC06649" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>While visiting one of my favorite old and rare bookstores, I came upon this magnificent book filled with beautiful images of France from the 1920's.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748923168/" title="La France by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4748923168_5f4827bcd9.jpg" width="500" height="268" alt="La France" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>This large book is filled with beautiful color plates mounted on gray tinted heavier paper. There are photographs of people and places in different regions of France.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748920280/" title="DSC06661 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4748920280_009558962b.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="DSC06661" /></a><br /><br />The name of the book is <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Les Merveilles De La France le Payes, les Monuments, les Habitants</span><br /></i></b><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748277041/" title="La France by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4748277041_29593f68c7.jpg" width="500" height="263" alt="La France" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>This beautiful maroon hardcover measures 7 3/4 inches by 9 3/4 inches tall. 444 pages. The book contains eighteen chapters, each chapter begins with a beautiful full color plate of the region. The last chapter is about Paris.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748914208/" title="La France by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4748914208_f9cf7a6710.jpg" width="500" height="362" alt="La France" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>Illustrated beautifully with 18 full color plates, which are mounted on heavy tinted paper. All the plates are in the book.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748907490/" title="DSC06659 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4748907490_ecdc6684d8.jpg" width="500" height="304" alt="DSC06659" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>The book is in wonderful condition, with the exception of the first page with tissue is free from the binding. Otherwise the gold-leaf is lovely and the book has been lovingly worn. Written in French, the author takes you on a tour through the history of France and it's geography.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748907296/" title="DSC06657 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4748907296_39789fcf1c.jpg" width="500" height="256" alt="DSC06657" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>In publisher's heavy maroon buckram-covered boards; sound hinges and joints; corners and edges lightly shelf-worn; hinges sturdy and good although there is a taped separation between the front inside page. Covers are decorated and titled in bright gilded script and ornamental flourishes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748296887/" title="La France by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4748296887_04784bb9a4.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="La France" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>I have created a custom bookplate for this treasure and listed it <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/50513062/lesmerveilles-de-la-france-le-payes-les"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">on my etsy shop</span></a>, <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">For The Love of Old Books.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4748974978/" title="My creation by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4748974978_4e1c0232fc.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="My creation" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4747856284/" title="DSC06632 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4747856284_51eb9e1b90_t.jpg" width="100" height="67" alt="DSC06632" /></a>France Illustrated, History. The book was published in 1920's in France by Hachette & Co.For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-74863382705882810342010-06-14T05:51:00.000-07:002010-06-20T04:18:23.486-07:00The Concord Museum<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f.jpg" width="500" height="351" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4187084197/" title="A Walk to Emerson's House by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4187084197_8f0b62effa_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="A Walk to Emerson's House" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">S</span>itting between Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home is <a href="http://concordmuseum.org/">the Concord Museum</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699764780/" title="DSC06379 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1268/4699764780_ed35f8448d.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="DSC06379" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>You cannot help but let your imagination go wild, as you glance up through the boughs of an old fruit tree.</b></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4187084197/" title="A Walk to Emerson's House by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4187084197_8f0b62effa_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="A Walk to Emerson's House" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">O</span>ne day while photographing <a href="http://karenharveycoxs.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-of-ralph-waldo-emerson.html">Emerson’s home</a>, I glanced over at the Museum and couldn’t help but notice the grand old fruit tree sitting in front of the building.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699785608/" title="DSC06386 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1284/4699785608_69f2090602.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06386" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>I walked across the street and looked at the beautiful old tree from every angle.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699145665/" title="DSC06387 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4699145665_889bd0017e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06387" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>Such beautiful old trees. I wondered if Louisa May might have sat beneath this very tree while babysitting Emerson’s children.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699148015/" title="DSC06385 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4699148015_e145f1ba9a.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06385" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>I became curious about this majestic building, and the ivy covered brick facing which frames the gorgeous old green front door.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699240433/" title="DSC06388 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1302/4699240433_0a38ece862.jpg" width="500" height="338" alt="DSC06388" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>I thought, was this the passage that Louisa May took when going to Emerson’s home?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699796384/" title="DSC06396 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4699796384_7558363cfe.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="DSC06396" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>Inside the museum you will find the most amazing exhibits. Yet, what about this handsome old building outside.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"In 1886 </span><a href="http://www.concordmuseum.org/explore/history_collection.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mr. Cummings E. Davis</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> moved into the Reuben_Brown_House" house with his unique collection of antiques and would exhibit his collection of local American furniture and other items for a price. During Mr. Cummings feeble years The Concord Antiquarian Society safeguarded his items and became possessor of the house. The Antiquarian Society utilized the house to display their collection of artifacts from American Revolution until 1930 when the Antiquarian Society moved their collection to the present Concord Museum in fear the Reuben Brown House might burn down and destroy there priceless artifacts."</span><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699790644/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4699790644_811c2976c8.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">T</span>hen while rummaging through one of my favorite old book shops the other day, I came across this little obscure little book called the Handbook Concord Antiquarian Society, Concord, Massachusetts 1932.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699369627/" title="handbook concord antiquarian society by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4699369627_21aff533d9.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="handbook concord antiquarian society" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>When I opened up the book I read:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>"In 1930 the old collection of the Concord Antiquarian Society was installed in the new house which had been built for it.<br /><br /></b></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the middle of the eighteen-hundreds a Concord character, Cummings E Davis had the unusual crotchet of collecting antiques. Long before the value of such things was recognized, he gathered everything he could."</span><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699394239/" title="concord antiquarian society by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4699394239_c4d995ceda.jpg" width="500" height="415" alt="concord antiquarian society" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">T</span>here inside was an old rendering of the Concord Museum. The Emerson family had donated the land where the museum stands today.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699768048/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1298/4699768048_fbacdaa488.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699813206/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/4699813206_98bfd3481f_t.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="Concord Museum" /></a>The front door has also been preserved, and you enter through another door to visit the museum. A trip worthwhile. One of my favorite exhibits is the Emerson Library. To learn more about the museum you can click <a href="http://concordmuseum.org/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699157187/" title="Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4699157187_11d9e6df1c.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Concord Museum" /></a><br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">You just cannot help but let your imagination run wild... </span></b></i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#006600;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699666101/" title="Antique tree in front of the Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4699666101_0bb27c3777.jpg" width="500" height="392" alt="Antique tree in front of the Concord Museum" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">as you glance up through the boughs of an old fruit tree. Dreaming of who might have sat beneath and written lovely words of the days they knew. Many people have come and gone admiring it's strong trunk and found shade underneath it's lovely branches. Yet it alone still stands, rooted in the history of the place and inviting the new guests to sit and to daydream for awhile.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4699553017/" title="The Concord Museum by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4699553017_95c2abf5bf.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="The Concord Museum" /></a></span>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-75732212939244539782010-06-09T08:42:00.000-07:002010-06-14T03:13:00.199-07:00The Poetry of Robert Browning<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4684661013/" title="DSC06546 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4684661013_8259200c62.jpg" width="500" height="379" alt="DSC06546" /></a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This lovely book of Robert Browning's poetry was publised in 1886 by Press of Berwick and Smith, Boston, Massachusetts.<br /></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4684635999/" title="DSC06547 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4684635999_7346bcb5a5.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC06547" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The dedication page is to Alfred Tennyson dated May 14, 1872, London.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4684630687/" title="DSC06548 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4684630687_4249e761a9.jpg" width="500" height="457" alt="DSC06548" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This lovely treasure still boasts beautiful gold leaf on the pages, the binding is also iced with gold leaf on the spine.<br /></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4684625051/" title="DSC06545 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4684625051_9fa8283ebc.jpg" width="385" height="500" alt="DSC06545" /></a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">The book measures 5 x 7 inches and has 282 pages of poetry. There is a portrait of Robert Browning in the front of the book.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4685252428/" title="DSC06550_1 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4685252428_8c6f57a68c.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="DSC06550_1" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4684654923/" title="DSC06546 by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4684654923_a95784d023_m.jpg" width="240" height="175" alt="DSC06546" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">hen I found this book and noticed the year it was published, I couldn't believe what lovely condition the book is in, except for a cover that is lovingly worn. A treasure for any library. I have just listed the this book in </span></span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/49061493/poetry-by-robert-browning"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">my etsy shop</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For The Love of Old Books.</span></span><br /></span></div>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028196829223204980.post-3094648120370817722010-06-03T09:25:00.001-07:002010-06-03T09:51:44.636-07:00So many lovely bindings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnKjVIThXoXGOh7P_EMzz-UZIY373vbWXckwgZdBjcnBWA8yO1mbb80P-zDMY5DltjD9rbnbR55tA3I-9eIc4A2lpd2EMitrVg1cuga3vDBvzOv_TytSA3cypeGEhCM-KNwl5gzhEIWc/s1600/DSC06546.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnKjVIThXoXGOh7P_EMzz-UZIY373vbWXckwgZdBjcnBWA8yO1mbb80P-zDMY5DltjD9rbnbR55tA3I-9eIc4A2lpd2EMitrVg1cuga3vDBvzOv_TytSA3cypeGEhCM-KNwl5gzhEIWc/s400/DSC06546.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478584541141617634" /></a><br />I love the look of an old binding, and the way the sweet volumes feel when you pick them up to hold them. I love the gold leafing found on the pages, and the beautiful book plates found inside. I found a beautiful journal all about <a href="http://daoinesidh.livejournal.com/">her love of old books.</a><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGcMgIazjJ7Eud50YsnBFnSmXjL5scO8eAjXBo-qbxDF7SswsTj2v32zpEqEDK4_gERdm_1zbDt8gl6yc5VLTxMDh5cMiK9fKMNPlumagVDMJ7rKOu0IqeZL3FVCSkLCExoWNaRtY4-U/s1600/captains+children+one.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGcMgIazjJ7Eud50YsnBFnSmXjL5scO8eAjXBo-qbxDF7SswsTj2v32zpEqEDK4_gERdm_1zbDt8gl6yc5VLTxMDh5cMiK9fKMNPlumagVDMJ7rKOu0IqeZL3FVCSkLCExoWNaRtY4-U/s200/captains+children+one.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478585700255934562" /></a><br /><br />aptain's Children is one of those beautiful bindings that I love.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NPQ20CoaV5G7HUSIpvrSylqf5uSYruoCVkEnnbHgLf0jKsqipu1ctslhIuVk-2Nm-cCD-raQNVrEi1ZkD6r_4g-CaOHE5UKv6jJ2YVRkONzRCbl7PArN0nzu_OpmkOwmjItOtTLuYcU/s1600/captain+children+three.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NPQ20CoaV5G7HUSIpvrSylqf5uSYruoCVkEnnbHgLf0jKsqipu1ctslhIuVk-2Nm-cCD-raQNVrEi1ZkD6r_4g-CaOHE5UKv6jJ2YVRkONzRCbl7PArN0nzu_OpmkOwmjItOtTLuYcU/s400/captain+children+three.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478586990325744242" /></a><br /><br />The illustrations inside are gorgeous.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4466125596/" title="Rain, rain go away by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4466125596_5accc55696.jpg" width="347" height="500" alt="Rain, rain go away" /></a><br /><br />I have used the illustrations inside to create prints, cards and bookplates. Here is a new illustration that I will restore.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRAAkLFgL8vxJzrDgpjEAcXEt8h7f71nc23MISjcsJsB_x7mQC_sfrTIPNLBQzgShyDbiz9AC-6Rf5nDQZTHAAXOPVdTB-23Hh-_wa_ayQXTPSmvRapCWfPYYCjUvBDkLsgGMw8Zfpdc/s1600/captains+children+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRAAkLFgL8vxJzrDgpjEAcXEt8h7f71nc23MISjcsJsB_x7mQC_sfrTIPNLBQzgShyDbiz9AC-6Rf5nDQZTHAAXOPVdTB-23Hh-_wa_ayQXTPSmvRapCWfPYYCjUvBDkLsgGMw8Zfpdc/s400/captains+children+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478586051710597138" /></a><br /><br />So it can be loved again all new and in a new wrapping.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/4632675210/" title="woman reading by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4632675210_b1fae1de56.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="woman reading" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtE5JJM921NJRkRmkrjy2wHk9IgH-uzQjOWvxF0PHsswqI8b6AaItifR6-Zw0fV67U9ZkHtNiHwmi09Bdh73M7x3t41r-iSlpz4h1vVTow_oE8-YciunJB-kNvF9sjXta2yqBqz7P00L8/s1600/DSC06546.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtE5JJM921NJRkRmkrjy2wHk9IgH-uzQjOWvxF0PHsswqI8b6AaItifR6-Zw0fV67U9ZkHtNiHwmi09Bdh73M7x3t41r-iSlpz4h1vVTow_oE8-YciunJB-kNvF9sjXta2yqBqz7P00L8/s200/DSC06546.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478588726686779234" /></a>I have found a stack of wonderful treasures to list, including the one at the top of this post by Robert Browning. This week has been busy with wonderful new things, preventing me from listing my new finds. Hopefully I will be able to list them on <a href="http://fortheloveofoldbooks.etsy.com/">my etsy shop</a> in a day or two.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Until then...wishing you a lovely day.</div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7374469@N02/3471598906/" title="Great Aunt Adelaide's Attic by bluebirdsandteapots, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3591/3471598906_451b7e17a6.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Great Aunt Adelaide's Attic" /></a>For The Love of Old Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190825262012124214noreply@blogger.com2