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A rather nice book cover
I've had this on my shelf for a while, and today I scanned it.
It's from 1914, and published by Blackie & Son. There's a credited ilustrator (Arthur Garratt) but I doubt he did the book cover. His plate is a very different style.
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A few random bookplates found at the Internet Archive. Cross-posted from my journal.
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Architecture Book
This is a book I made, for an architecture history class, in 2007. I drew all of the pages on separate sheets of paper and then sewed then together with a stiff paper cover, whole thing about approximately 10x14 inches. The illustrations are all in pencil, but I inked the text. Example page:
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Flip Books
FLIPBOOK.info.
"...a website entirely devoted to an art form half way between book and movie. We have a collection of 5840 flip books (also called flick books or folioscopes) from 1882 to nowadays with a great diversity of topics."
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Illuminated Alphabet Book
I have always been interested in book decoration, especially of the medieval variety, as well as book binding. Recently I put these interests together to create a small decorated Alphabet Book, decorated and bound by hand over my last spring break. Each page of the book is 4 1/4x 5 1/2 inches, with the cover slightly larger than that. The cover is ( Read more... )
