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 |
Category Archives: Books
Mr. S. R. Crockett
Description | English: S. R. Crockett writing at a desk, with a Hammond typewriter to his right |
Date | 1895 |
Source | Cassell’s Family Magazine (https://archive.org/details/cfm-1895/page/359/mode/2up) |
Author | John Moffatt |
Sibyl
Description | English: Sibyl, printer’s mark of Michele Tramezzino of Venice |
Date | 1549 |
Source | De Antiquitatibus urbis Romae (https://archive.org/details/deantiqvitatibvs00faun/page/n3/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Under the Lamp, by Constant Puyo
Description | English: Under the Lamp, by Constant Puyo Français : « Sous la lampe » par Constant Puyo |
Date | 1904 |
Source | La Revue de photographie (https://archive.org/details/larevuedephotogr2190unse/page/n361/mode/2up) |
Author | Constant Puyo |
Businessman with Open Book
Description | English: Businessman looking down at an open book |
Date | 1915 |
Source | A Better Day’s Profits (https://archive.org/details/betterdaysprofit00burr/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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Bookshelves
Description | English: Ornament from the Bookman Ornaments collection from American Type Founders |
Date | 1923 |
Source | ATF specimen book (https://archive.org/details/1923AmericanTypeFoundersSpecimenBookCatalogue/page/n755/mode/2up?q=indexes) |
Author | Anonymous |
These scalable ornaments can be used at any size.
The Scribe at Work
Description | English: Scribe working on a manuscript, surrounded by his research material |
Date | 15th century |
Source | The Art & Practice of Typography (https://archive.org/details/artpracticeoftyp00gres/page/n9/mode/2up) |
Author | Jean Le Tavernier |
No information is given about the picture in the source book. The scribe pictured is identified in other versions on Commons as Jean Miélot, and the artist as Jean Le Tavernier.
Book and Candles
Description | English: Ornament with manuscript book and candles |
Date | 1910 |
Source | The Art & Practice of Typography (https://archive.org/details/artpracticeoftyp00gres/page/n11/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
This scalable ornament can be used at any size.
Open Book
Description | English: Ornament from an 1830 typefounder’s catalogue |
Date | 1830 |
Source | Specimen of Printing-Types, and Ornaments, from the Letter Foundry of J. Howe & Co. (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n181/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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Liturgies That Won’t Burn
Description |
English: Roman and Mozarabic liturgies unharmed by the fire: an engraving from a Mexican edition of the Mozarabic rite
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Date | |
Source | Missa Gothica, seu, Mozarabica, et Officium itidem Gothicum (https://archive.org/details/missagothicaseum00cath/page/n13/mode/2up) |
Author | Jphus. Nava |
Latin banners read: “Both books cast into the fire”; “The Roman leaps out of the fire”; “The Gothic unharmed under the flames.”