Odd Ends » 1880

Bunyan

Barbara — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:27:07 +0000

Bunyan, by James Anthony Froude. Published 1880.

Thanks to Sankar Viswanathan for post-processing this project!

“He Giveth His Beloved Sleep”

Barbara — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:44:34 +0000

“He Giveth His Beloved Sleep”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey, engraved by Andrew. Published 1882, Â©1880.

One of my oldest clearances — it took a while for us to figure out that the best way to present this heavily illustrated book is the simplest way: as illustrations.

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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects; and Curiosities of Art, Volume 2

Barbara — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:07:27 +0000

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, Volume 2, by Shearjashub Spooner. Â©1853, published 1880.

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Jervas and Dr. Arbuthnot.

Barbara — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:43:20 +0000

Jervas, who affected to be a Free-thinker, was one day talking very irreverently of the Bible. Dr. Arbuthnot maintained to him that he was not only a speculative, but a practical believer. Jervas denied it. Arbuthnot said that he would prove it: “You strictly observe the second commandment;” said the Doctor, “for in your pictures you ‘make not the likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth’”!

From Shearjashub Spooner: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, Volume 2. 1880.

Everyone’s a critic.

Alexander Pope

Barbara — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:00:28 +0000

Alexander Pope, by Leslie Stephen, part of the English Men of Letters series. Published 1880.

Thanks to Lisa Reigel for post-processing this book.

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