Colour drawing of Godey's women's Fashion for August 1880 from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1880 Philadelphia, Louis A. Godey. (x)

A board game I highly recommend, long dog and emergency rye, pig plate, coffee maker that's pretty old, fakie beanies, weird hands I think are pin cushions, and actual bowling shoes (too big for me).

Value Village in Red Deer, AB

Decorating with Pictures, 1991

Costume Parisien. 1806.

Coeffure de Jeune Personne. Robe de Crêpe.

Napoleonic era fashion plate.

One last bookplate which is so charming I have to provide some comments (See the other ones here, here and here.)

This is the bookplate (or ex libris) of German politician, lawyer and Enlightenment figure Johann Daniel von Olenschlager (1711-1778), It depicts an ideal of a library which is made clear already in the Latin motto inscribed in the elaborate, Rococo frame, which translated into something like “I wish to be both useful and to be of enjoyment.” 

The depicted library room is an open loggia covered with a roomy vault. The side walls are entirely covered by bookshelves, giving that pleasant, comfortable impression of being lost in a sea of reading material. The floor, we may imagine, is a cool stone floor - because at the rear end, the loggia opens generously to a gorgeous Baroque garden. The shadows falling from the pillars to the left, the fountain trickling  and the garland having from the roof to frame the entrance all give away a vague feeling of an eternal summer day. Pruned trees, a gravel path and a balustraded stair emanate an atmosphere of peace and order. Two figures move towards us from the garden; we can almost hear the bright voices of our friends approaching. In a few moments they will be with us, laughingly teasing us to finally drop our books and get out into the sunshine with them. I wouldn’t mind at all.

Must be an exciting tail.

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My modest collection of vintage ex libris / bookplates.

Reinterpretation: design by Piero Fornasetti, by Julles Pio

Some colored illustrations from the home university bookshelf

Vintage book plate with scary clown skeleton art.

From the book, Death - A Graveside Companion.

Lionel Lindsay  - John Preece - Ex Libris, 1928, wood cut; Julian Ormond Smith, Ex libris, 1950, etching; Ex Libris, Bookplate, wood engraving

Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay (1874 – 1961) was an Australian artist producing prints, watercolour paintings and wood carving. He taught himself etching and engraving. Lionel entered journalism in 1892. He studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. He travelled widely, visiting Spain, Italy, France and India. His many exhibitions in London brought international recognition.

🍽 source: Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch für den Elektroherd (translation: Dr. Oetker school cook book for the electric stove) ➛ publisher: Ceres-Verlag Rudolf-August Oetker KG ➛ 16th Improved Edition 1969 ➛ Printed in Germany

What’s wrong with this picture?

Not a damn thing.

4 Pieces Of Vintage Glasbake Cookware

4 Pieces Of Vintage Glasbake Cookware

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Another (see also my earlier post) very charming ex libris or bookplate is that of Georg Andreas Weise (1737-1792), a German theologian. Curiously, he was born in Astrakhan in Russia. 

In any case, his bookplate captures much of the simple, dignified atmosphere of German Neoclassicism and Biedermeier style. It also indicates a serious relationship to books and learning, with the overfull stacks behind the plain but pleasant desk and not least the lit and shaded lamp. Here is the bookplate, it seems to say, of a man perhaps with limited means, but with a great thirst for knowledge and love of books, who would stay up late, reading and working hard, with only the sound of the quill against the paper impeding on that peaceful yet creative atmosphere.

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