Thursday, June 30, 2016

This Is the Rook / Reading His Book (1862)

“The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin,” Routledge’s Nursery Picture Book (London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862), 28.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Thursday, June 23, 2016

The Swan, The Vulture (1820)

Infant’s Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (London: Harvey and Darton, 1820).

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Pupils of Fawcett School, Panel with Swans (1921)

Keramic Studio: A Magazine for the Student of Design, China Painter and Potter 23 (April 1922): 214.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

In Decorative Design, Birds Are Favorite Motives (1900)

John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter S. Perry,  Teacher’s Manual Part IV for the Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Books 11–12, Eighth Year (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1900), 198.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Every Single One a Prehistoric Nightmare (1913)

Hamilton Mack Laing, Out with the Birds (New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1913), 187

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Head and Tail Pieces: No. 2904, $1.25 (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cut 2094.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Cuts Are Sent by Mail Pre-Paid on Receipt of List Price (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cuts 1649, 1842, and 1843.


Thursday, June 2, 2016

Both Start like Lightning from the Fist (1886)

E.B. Michell, “Modern Falconry,” Illustrated by George E. Lodge, The English Illustrated Magazine 3 (July 1886): 661.