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othmeralia · 2 months
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Is it too much to ask to live in this house!?
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uwmspeccoll · 7 months
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Milestone Monday
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Happy National Dictionary Day!
Although the day was introduced to honor the birthday of American lexicographer Noah Webster, we are more interested in his innovative predecessor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Johnson was an English writer with credits as a poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. In 1746, he was approached by a group of publishers to create an authoritative English dictionary and agreed, boasting he could complete the dictionary within three years. In the end, he single-handedly completed the task within eight years utilizing only clerical assistance. 
Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was first published in London by noted Scottish printer and publisher William Strahan on April 15, 1755. While certainly not the first dictionary, it was groundbreaking in its documentation of the English lexicon providing not only words and their definitions, but examples of their use. Johnson accomplished this by illustrating the meanings of words through literary quotes, often citing Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden. He also introduced lighthearted humor into some of his definitions, most notably describing a lexicographer as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words”. Of equal amusement, oats are defined as “a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”. 
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A Dictionary of the English Language was published in two volumes with volume one containing A-K and volume two L-Z. Its pages were 46 cm tall and 51 cm wide, and it is said that outside of a few special editions of the Bible no book of this size and bulk had been set to type and that no bookseller could print it without help. Johnson’s dictionary was the pre-eminent dictionary for over 100 years until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1884. Despite some criticism about his etymology and orthoepic guidelines, Johnson’s dictionary was tremendously influential in its methodology for how dictionaries should be constructed and entries presented, casting a shadow over all future dictionaries and lexicographers. 
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Several of the words in Johnson's dictionary were painstakingly defined. "Take" has 134 definitions running 8,000 words over 5 pages.
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Woodcut tailpieces adorn the dictionary interspersed between letters.
Special Collections holds a facsimile reproduction of Johnson's dictionary, published in 1967 by AMS Press of New York.
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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 
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dd-phd · 11 months
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Source: Gregorius (Papa XV) — Motus proprius. Reverse title. It’s unusual in this period (ca. 1623) for there to be a graphic on the back of the title page. Such “devices” or “printer’s cuts” are more often found at the end of a chapter or on the back of the final page of text; in those locations they are often called “tailpieces”. (Compare with ”frontispiece” — an illustration facing the title page or on the page preceding the title page.) Printer’s cuts, unlike frontispieces, are seldom tailored to a particular work. Instead they — like most ornaments — go with the printer, and so you will often see the same ornaments over nad over in books from the same printing-house.
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tomoleary · 5 months
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J. Quentin Jaxon “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” title header (1921)
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synthaphone · 3 months
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witness my struggle, ft: butter dish i was using as reference for rendering translucent glass, before i realized that i was going overboard for what is supposed to be a cartoon stylization
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take 1: the most butterdish- i went overboard trying to copy the ref and also struggling because the ref is a clear dish on a white bg, so its hard to tell what's highlight and what's translucency. ultimately, i decided it looks overworked for such a small wearable, and also makes it hard to see the balls inside. also it looks lumpy
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take 2: i actually kind of like this one, but if you zoom out it becomes clear its Also too overworked
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take 3: mannn i was gonna be like 'and here's my ultimate version' but man.... its easier to see the balls in take 2.... this shit is difficult
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take 4: okay it needs some kind of stronger highlight doesn't it. but also its at this point where i realize i'm overthinking it
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tAKE 5: WHat if i combined 3 and 4... ohhhh fuck!!!!!!!!! (its overcluttered again)
okay so after take 5 i left this post to fuck around with it more and ended up with take 6
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which i think is what i'm going to go with. i showed gill to ask for their opinion and i had to point out to them what i was even changing, because this area of the drawing is so small when zoomed out. im the king of obsessing over trivial details
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codesquire · 10 months
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I got inspired to make a cosmetic change on my Les Paul, tonight.
The tailpiece is from an Ibanez AF-55, that was traded out for a Bigsby.
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hellwegandcloutier · 1 year
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A Mountain Mahogany “Fleur de Lis” tailpiece on a cornerless 1704 “Betts” Stradivari model violin
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beattopia · 1 year
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Guitar-bouzouki tailpiece. #guitarbouzouki #bouzouki #guitars #tailpiece #bespokeguitars #williamhancockguitars (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCogEoy2DB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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jellicle-chants · 2 years
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Welp, I brought my cello back to the apartment with me yesterday thinking I'd play it, so I took it out today and snapped my A string after about 10 minutes of unfruitful peg tuning attempts. Guess it's off to the music store tomorrow!
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othmeralia · 3 months
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A Valentines Gift for Our Fellow Bibliophiles
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the noun bibliophile as "A lover of books; a book-fancier; also as adjective."
Decorative tailpiece in Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light / by Sir Isaac Newton, 1718.
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legofemme · 2 years
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I love having a lego url while not actively legoblogging. U had 2 be there i guess.
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celestefem · 5 months
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looking at scans on archive.org that poorly trace over old illustrations in books:
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gaboon-vampire · 1 year
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menacingfag · 1 year
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agnesafterhours · 9 months
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[02:22 am] [smut]
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“i feel pathetic.” he grumbles under his breath, bobba eyes following your finger’s path down his chest through his open hoodie—the sides of his lovely kuromi outfit currently being zipped together by a centimeter or two of the tailpiece in front of the cropped fabric.
you lean down towards his face until you feel the ghost of his minty breath against your lips, his hands slighty shaky where he holds your hips on his lap.
“good.” your smirk gives him goosebumps, “isn’t that what you call me when i’m whining about how much i need you? pathetic?" you watch as he swallows, pretty blown pupils rapidly switching from staring at you lips and back at your eyes again. “and isn’t that just what you’re doing, bunny?”
“i’m not whining about anything,” his voice comes out in a whisper, hands slowly stroking your sides as you gently kiss along his neck, “i’m just saying how i feel. isn't that what you want me to do, anyway?”
he refers to all the times you asked him to voice his needs for you, know-it-all grin plastered on his pretty face. it was astonishing how annoying he managed to be even when he's under you. minho never gives up control, not really. not for long.
and even though you're very much aware of his nature, it still hits you like a truck every time he suddenty starts to run his mouth.
“so tired, aren't you, pretty? can't even ride me right.” sweat dribbles down your naked chest, hips swaying faster with each word that leaves his lips. “wanted to be on top so bad.” a moan slips his open mouth. “you can't take it”
“i can take it. i can.” you try to refrain your eyes from rolling to the back of your head, you can't seem to be enjoying this more than he is. you won't give him the satisfaction. “you just look so pretty in this, i-”
he chuckles, a sudden spank to your ass leaving you breathless. “thank you, baby. you look so pretty when you're fucked stupid. don't you wanna look pretty for me?”
you fall forward, both hands caging his head under you. “i do! wanna be pretty for you, minho.”
he tilts his hips in an attempt to switch positions, but your method of keeping him under you by forcing your knees on the bed backfires— his cock hitting a spot so deep you can't hold back the cry that leaves your swollen lips.
“no! i can- make you come- make us come.” you're breathing heavily above him, hips swaying frantically as you fight your way through each word.
“i'm too deep inside you, pretty. it's too much.” his hoodie’s ears sit unassuming beside his red face—the stark contrast between the outfit and his red toned chest glistening under it making you grunt each time you opened your eyes.
“it's not- fuck! shut up, minho.” you feel your throat becoming sore with each loud moan.
“i know you don't want me to.” you suddenly feel his harsh hold on your ass, groping the skin as he forced you up his cock. he grunts when he feels you scratching him, hand easily sneaking in the zipper above his shoulder.
“now be good and bounce for me, baby. come on.”
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