Tag Archives: Books

1862: Billedbog

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Pages from a scrapbook billedbog (Danish: “picture book”) made by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend Adolph L. Drewsen for eight-year-old Jonas Drewsen. Andersen and Drewsen both contributed to the collages and wrote stories and poems around the pictures and in … Continue reading →

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1850: The Last Hoopoe Starling

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

FREGILUPUS VARIA As long ago as 1674 a note about the “Huppe” exists, by “Le Sieur D.B.,” i.e., Dubois. He says, when describing the birds of Réunion (translated): “Hoopoes or ‘Callendres,’ having a white tuft on the head, the rest … Continue reading →

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1964: Bastard

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

Women cheat, women suffer. They used to be attractive—so they smooth away their age. I shout mine aloud because I was never attractive, because I shall always have my baby hair. It’s taken me two and a half hours to … Continue reading →

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1650: Horse

Posted on August 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from Il cavallo da maneggio [The Arena Horse] by Giovanni Battista di Galiberto (1650), showing the anatomy of the horse and sites of common ailments and wounds. The full title of the work is Il cavallo da maneggio. : Libro. Dove … Continue reading →

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2015: When My Father Died

Posted on August 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Susanna Hesselberg: When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down (2015) (source)

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1921: The Roosters and the Fox

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Chaim Nachman Bialik: The Roosters and the Fox; Omanut Press, ca. 1921 (source)

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1880: The House

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)

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1756: Allegory

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Allegorical Frontispiece of Rome and its history from Le Antichità Romane (1756)

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1840: The End of the World

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Der Götter und Riesenkampff bey dem Weltuntergang” [The Gods and the Great Battle at the Apocalypse]; illustration from The World Theater, or The Universal World History From Creation To The Year 1840, etc. by C Strahlheim (1834-41).

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1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading →

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