Cambridge UL Special Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

Lovely visit from @tyndalesociety today to see some of our early printed Bibles & the @biblesociety library collections.

A stunning new #acquisition: six little books on natural history (c. 1825) aimed at young ladies, on subjects like #birds, #flowers & #butterflies. Beautiful embossed paper covers & an exquisite gilt box. Whoever received this new must have been over the moon! @Fem_Scribblers

A rather poorly copy of The English Gentlewoman (1631) requested today, featuring an upside down frontispiece and manuscript annotations from former owners. (Broughton.57) #rarebookrequests

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born #OTD in 1712. We have a large collection of related material, from the libraries of Ralph Leigh & Robert Wokler, including this work by Rousseau inscribed by him to d'Alambert, co-editor of the Encyclopédie with Diderot https://t.co/1uUXstcuOH

Celebrating #BotanicalArtWorldwide2018 with this lovely watercolour copy-book. On the left, Miss Smith’s heart-leaved geranium; on the right, the owner’s attempt to copy the flower.

Miss Smith’s ‘Studies of flowers from nature’ (1818), acquired in 2007 by @EmilyDourish @theUL.