Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Kiln at Dale Was Situated Just Outside the Abbey Gate-House (1890)

John Ward. “Notes on Encaustic Tiles, Dell Abbey and Morely, Derbyshire.” The Reliquary Quarterly 4 (Jan.–Oct. 1890): 220.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Gob ble Tur keys A way (1904)

Thanks giv ing gob ble tur keys a way
Frances Eggleston Blodget, Andrew Burr Blodgett. A Primer. (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904).

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Feeing Thefe Cocks Mangle (1786)

The History of a Little Boy Found Under a  Haycock Continued From the First Part, Given in the Royal Alphabet, or, Child's Best Instructor. (London: E. Newbery, 1786).

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Lesson 2 (1907)

Boys run; see the boys run. Dogs play; see the dogs play.  Man shoot; see the man shoot.
Benj. M. Black. Primer. (Boston: Educational Publishing Company, 1907).

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Raven & Dove (1840)

Henry and Eliza discovering the Raven

Henry tying Eliza to a Tree
Mrs. Cameraon. The Raven and the Dove. (London: Houlston and Co., 1840).

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Left Half of the Skeleton (1897)

Left half of the skeleton, gallus bankiva var. domestica, The skull, vertebral column, and sternum are bisected in the median plane.
Sydney H. Reynolds. The Vertebrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: University Press, 1897).

Friday, October 5, 2012

Showing Method of Binding (1884)

Peregrine Falcon On Flight
Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds : to which is Added a Chapter Upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Uselessness of Small Variations (1900)

The alleged uselessness of small variations from chapter "Objections to the Darwinian Theory."
C.F. Marshall, ed. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory Delivered by the Late Arthur Milnes Marshall. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1900.)

Friday, September 28, 2012

Chicago's Worst Cow (1888)

Chicago's worst cow; Chicago fire
Chicago: An Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City; With a Useful Stranger's Guide.  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888).

Monday, April 30, 2012

The Hero Makóma (1906)

Makóma leaps into the pool of crocodiles
Andrew Lang, ed. "The Story of the Hero Makóma." The Orange Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906).

Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Turtle and His Bride (1914)

The Turtle Outwitted
Andrew Lang, ed. "The Turtle and His Bride." The Brown Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1914).

Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Story of a Gazelle (1906)

The Gazelle cuts off the serpent's heads.
Andrew Lang, ed. "The Story of a Gazelle." The Violet Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906).

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Two Cat Witches (1921)

With one sweep of his sword Hugh struck at the cat's pas
William Elliot Griffis. "Two Cat Witches" Welsh Fairy Tales. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1921).

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Fur Beating (1911)

"Electric Machine Beats Fur Garments." Popular Mechanics. (August 1911).

Sunday, April 15, 2012

In Peril of His Life (1906)

Frank Fawcett. "Some Dogs and Their Ways." The English Illustrated Magazine. (January 1906).

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Tomassie and the Rabbits (1878)


J.M.D Meiklejohn. Chambers English Readers: Book III. (London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1878).

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Paul Came Down the Chimney (1892)

"Boyhood in Norway." [Review] Illustration from Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Boyesen . Book News. 11 (December 1892).

Monday, April 2, 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012