Special Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

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

To celebrate fall, we present 'The Blue Book of Trees: A Guide to the Ashes, Birches, Elms, Maples, and other Broad-Leaved Trees of North America' by P. J. Van Melle with illustrations by Rudolf Freund. Learn more here: https://t.co/fKs3XmLVcE

It's time for another Luttrell Psalter #MonsterMonday! This peculiar pairing of grotesques comes from page 196r of the Luttrell Psalter. Learn more about these monsters over on our Tumblr site: https://t.co/VHVuxLE2Lm

Normally, when compiling images for these decorative arts posts we focus on gorgeous patterns, but today we wanted to show some of the weirder and more figurative art found in these books. These images are from 'Dekorative Vorbilder.' Learn more here: https://t.co/xIgDcU1Fui

Happy #NationalComingOutDay from the UWM Special Collections! To celebrate today, we pulled out No Straight Lines, an anthology of queer comics from the 1960s to the 2000s. For more information, check out our Tumblr post: https://t.co/W43ROpUYiK