Special Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

Happy #WrightBrothersDay! Among our numerous publications on aviation, we found this handy Instruction Book for Wright Tornado Engine complete with helpful illustrations and step-by-step guides! Learn more here: https://t.co/1u3qZv2ZUT

This week, our George Alfred Henty selection is 'The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusade.' The edition of this title in our holdings was published by Donohue Brothers. Find out how we can tell the publication date even though it's not printed in the book: https://t.co/fo2dZYE1KZ

Today we are presenting decorative plates from 'Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details,' published in twelve volumes by Bernard Quaritch between 1890 and 1913. Learn more here: https://t.co/MPDfuIrTxp

For the month of November, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the November 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more abt the publication & see more illustrations here: https://t.co/ZdgKFy4lVu

It’s Fine Press Friday! This week we present 'An Almanac for Moderns' by Donald Culross Peattie, with wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz. Printed by Judd and Detweiler, Inc. for the members of the Limited Editions Club in 1938. Learn more here: https://t.co/WhFjudhfEk

The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator who also produced chromolithographs for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Learn more here: https://t.co/GMfmdZO65c

Today we present illustrations from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, revised by Thomas Baines and published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in London in 1882.

The grotesque in the outer margins of page 192r of the Luttrell Psalter encapsulates our inner feelings when seeing these monsters. Learn more about this #MonsterMonday here: https://t.co/aagJJAMbsr

This week's #Henty book features a complicated romance between an Aztec princess and a shipwrecked Englishman. This is 'By Right of Conquest, or, With Cortez in Mexico.' Learn more here: https://t.co/mkwu6lGDUk

Today we present 'The Floral Art of Japan: Being a Second and Revised Edition of the Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement' by Josiah Conder, with illustrations by Japanese artists, published in Tokyo in 1899. See more here: https://t.co/RtpNH6thwn #WednesdayFlora