heaveninawildflower:

Summer Sunlight (Isles of Shoals)1892 by Childe Hassam (1859–1935). Oil on canvas.

Google Art Project: Home via Wikimedia.

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mucholderthen:

Elizabeth Blackwell
1701-1785
A Curious Herbal

Notable both for its beautiful illustrations of medicinal plants and for the unusual circumstances of its creation.

Elizabeth Blackwell was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of “A Curious Herbal”, published between 1737 and 1739. The book illustrated many odd-looking and unknown plants from the New World, and was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for the use of physicians and apothecaries.

Blackwell undertook this ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtor’s prison. She drew, engraved, and colored the illustrations herself, mostly using plant specimens from the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.

It was an artistic, scientific and commercial enterprise unprecedented for a woman of her time.

[ source:  Turning the Pages - National Library of Medicine ]

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simena:

Irving R. Wiles 

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heaveninawildflower:

May page from ‘The Labours of the Months’ a Flemish Book of Hours  (First half of the 16th century).

Simon Bening (circa 1483/1484–1561).

Wikimedia.

Amazing 3D Book Collages Bring Classic Stories to Life

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theniftyfifties:

A girl with glasses in the library, 1955. Photo by Michel Lambeth.

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From Again! by Emily Gravett

Bought this book for Sant Jordi’s Day. It is gorgeous, funny and very cute. I’m in love with little Cedric the Dragon!

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auspiciousplatypus:

The frontispiece to The Accidents of Youth (1819), a book of short stories and wonderful engravings aimed at keeping young people out of trouble and “calculated to improve the moral conduct of children”.

See more here: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/15/the-accidents-of-youth-1819

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yama-bato:

Gothic architecture (1742)

Author: Langley, Batty
Subject: Architecture; Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, English; Architecture
Publisher: London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, Holborn
Year: 1742

scientificillustration:

Gifts of forest and field by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous;.
Indianapolis,The Bowen-Merrill Company[c1902].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1269803

teachingliteracy:

wanderthewood:

There’s a Library in my Library (top, detail), by sweetington

fleurdulys:

The Library - Elizabeth Shippen Green

1905

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ebookfriendly:

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heaveninawildflower:

n153_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

The natural history of British insects. v.1.
London :Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington,1792-1813.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30029648