Stray Studies from England and Italy, by John Richard Greene. Published 1876.

Thanks to Barbara Kosker for post-processing this project!

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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, by Samuel Felton. Published 1830.

What an odd book. The title says exactly what it is, but yet it doesn’t. The author 1) makes a list of English authors who have written (or published) books about 2) gardens and gardening (including horticulture), lists them and discusses 3) portraits that have been made of them. These are not “word picture” portraits, but engravings of paintings, etc. that can be found in the various books. Oh, and 4) they were deceased at the time of writing.

Thanks to Anonymous for post-processing this project!

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A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays, by Willa Cather.

This is a “Made for PG” collection of newspaper and magazine stories, reviews and essays. You can see some of the early development of Cather’s style, and follow her move from Nebraska to New York.

• Part I: Stories
  • Peter
  • On the Divide
  • Eric Hermannson’s Soul
  • The Sentimentality of William Tavener
  • The Namesake
  • The Enchanted Bluff
  • The Joy of Nelly Deane
  • The Bohemian Girl
  • Consequences
  • The Bookkeeper’s Wife
  • Ardessa
  • Her Boss
• Part II: Reviews And Essays
  • Mark Twain
  • William Dean Howells
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Walt Whitman
  • Henry James
  • Harold Frederic
  • Kate Chopin
  • Stephen Crane
  • Frank Norris
  • When I Knew Stephen Crane
  • On the Art of Fiction

Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget, by Prof. A. Loisette. Published 1899, ©1896.

This is one of the last projects that the late Laura Wisewell post-processed. She is missed.

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Three Things, by Elinor Glyn. Published 1915.

I post-processed this book pretty much at random — I was looking for something easy to do and there it was…

Elinor Glyn invented the It girl. In this small book of essays she discusses love, sex, marriage (and divorce) and motherhood.

Moral Principles in Education, by John Dewey. Published 1909.

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Color Value, by C. R. Clifford. Published 1907.

A reference (with black-and-white illustrations!) primarily for interior decoration.

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The Uses of Italic, by Frederick W. Hamilton. Published 1918.

Thanks to Jana Srna for post-processing this project!

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