Die Nibelungen is an epic poem central to German Mythology. The most interesting thing about it is the 1909 interpretation of it by Frank Keim brilliantly illustrated by Carl [...] Continue Reading…

Discovered this book by complete accident whilst looking for something completely different and was hugely impressed by the quality of the illustrations. There is little information available to us [...] Continue Reading…

Came across this book recently and was immediately attracted to it by is cover…..they just don’t do book covers like this anymore…stunning!

The content is selection of re-workings of stories from [...] Continue Reading…

Happy New Year to those of you who like to celebrate such things (not really into it myself  – it was 2009……now its 2010…so what??!).

Anyway, onto more interesting matters. [...] Continue Reading…

First off, any apologies for the distinct lack of posts on here in an excessively long time. Real life getting in the way and such…Anyway, back to normality so [...] Continue Reading…

Regular readers may know that I am a great enthusiast of the Big Apple.  The images I have for you today are taken from the 1939 publication New York [...] Continue Reading…

No introduction should be neccessary for regular readers of this blog to the work of Arthur Rackham – one Englands greatest illustrators. The images I have for you today [...] Continue Reading…

These fantastic hand coloured wood-cuts are taken from the 16th Century astronomy text Astronomicum Caesareum by Petrus Apian. Taking several years to produce at  his private print shop in [...] Continue Reading…

Bookplates, also refered to as ex-libris [Latin for "from the books of..."], are small decorative labels which indicate the owner of a book. They generally appear inside the font [...] Continue Reading…

Warwick Goble was a Victorian illustrator who enjoyed his greatest success during the early decades of the 20th century when there was a great demand for colour plate illustrations. [...] Continue Reading…