Category: FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS

  • The Ulm Münster Book-Covers

    January 12, 2020
    The Ulm Münster Book-Covers, Ulm, ca. 1506, via The British Museum. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=33045&partId=1
  • Butterflies and Moths by W. Furneaux

    May 3, 2018
    'Butterflies and Moths' by W. Furneaux, 1894,  Longmans, Green, and Co. 'William Samuel Furneaux (2 June 1855, Devonport – 1940)…
  • Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

    May 3, 2018
    'Stories by Poe' by Edgar Allan Poe, book cover designed by Paul Woodroffe, 1908, The Daily Heller. 'Born in Boston…
  • Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

    October 1, 2017
    'Poems' by Edgar Allan Poe, to which is added a full and impartial 'Memoir of the Poet Edgar Allan Poe',…
  • The Poetical Works of William Cowper

    October 1, 2017
    'The Poetical Works' of William Cowper with illustrations by Hugh Cameron, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1869. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-cowper
  • Faust by Goethe

    October 1, 2017
    'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clarke & Company,  1886, translated by Anna Swanwick. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe
  • The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

    October 1, 2017
    'The Violet Fairy Book' by Andrew Lang, 1901. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18393.Andrew_Lang
  • Granford by Elizabeth Gaskell

    October 1, 2017
    'Granford' by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1853. Elizabeth Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë and wrote the biography, 'Life of Charlotte…
  • Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

    October 1, 2017
    'Lady of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832),  Donohue, Henneberry and Co. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland…
  • Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    October 1, 2017
    'Poems' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, F. S. Ellis, 1870, London, Binding: Cobden-Sanderson. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dante-gabriel-rossetti-461