John Milton’s Frontispiece Prank
Confronted with a bad frontispiece portrait of himself Milton enacted a very literary revenge on the engraver….more
17th Century
Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library
Wonderful examples of “fore-edge painting”, where an illustration or design appears on the “fore-edge” of a book….more
First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
John Florio’s translation of Michel de Montaigne’s genre-forming Essays, including thoughts on grief, friendship, drunkenness, impotence, smells, death, and thumbs….more
Collection of Dances in Choreography Notation (1700)
Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented in the 1680s at the court of Lo…more
