Description | English: Ornament from an advertisement in Boktryckeri-Kalender 1897 |
Date | 1897 |
Source | Boktryckeri-Kalender 1897 (https://archive.org/details/boktryckeri-kalender-1897zaschrisson/) |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Books
Taking a Picture of Grandmother Reading to the Children
“Keep the story with a Kodak”
Description | English: Woman taking a picture of grandmother reading to children, from an advertisement for Kodak cameras |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Advertisement in Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n639/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
An Ending to Suit Everyone, by Bill Breck
Description | English: “An Ending to Suit Everyone” by Bill Breck, illustrating his own article in Shadowland |
Date | 1923 |
Source | Shadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland08brew/page/n201/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | G. William Breck |
Bookplate by Heinrich Vogeler
Description | English: Pen drawing by Heinrich Vogeler |
Date | 1902 |
Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008852077/page/n347/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Heinrich Vogeler |
Bookplate with the Temptation of Eve, by E. M. Lilien
Description | English: Bookplate by Ephraim Moses Lilien |
Date | 1899 |
Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095190/page/94/mode/2up?q=Behrens&view=theater) |
Author | Ephraim Moses Lilien |
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Fiddle, Harp, and Books of Old Ballads
Description | English: Title-page vignette from a book of old ballads |
Date | 1810 |
Source | Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative (https://archive.org/details/oldballadshistor02evanuoft/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Still Life with Books, by Wladyslaw Majewski

Description | English: Still Life by Wladyslaw Majewski |
Date | 1913 |
Source | Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte (https://archive.org/details/velhagenklasing2711unse_2/page/560/mode/2up) |
Author | Wladyslaw Majewski |
Ledger
Description | English: Stock cut from an American Type Founders specimen book, 1897 |
Date | 1897 |
Source | American Type Founders Company specimen book (https://archive.org/details/specimensoftypeb00amer/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Title-Page City Frame
Description | English: Frame used for the name of the city of publication in a 1799 book |
Date | 1799 |
Source | Pantographia (https://archive.org/details/pantographiacont00fryeiala/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
S. R. Crockett’s Library

Description | English: Novelist S. R. Crockett’s library, photographed by John Moffat. |
Date | 18 September 2021, 10:42:13 |
Source | Cassell’s Family Magazine (https://archive.org/details/cfm-1895/page/361/mode/2up) |
Author | John Moffat |