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Cowardly Lion dead ringer!
#Caturday #HoughtonLibrary

Typographically INSANE!!!

Don't mind me, just enjoying the Vatican's gorgeous 1628 c. printing on fabric at #HoughtonLibrary....
#kerning

Long ago in a library not that far away...

1816 Magna Carta printed in gold on IMPERIAL PURPLE satin at #HoughtonLibrary!
#MayTheFourthBeWithYou #May4th

Mantis from 'An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas' by Edward Donovan. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800.

I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

#naturalhistory #insectart #HoughtonLibrary #insects #rarebooks #sciart

Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas) from ‘An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas’ by Edward Donovan. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800.

I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

#naturalhistory #insectart #HoughtonLibrary #sciart

That's Some GREAT
Fabric Printing

And embroidering, and gilding... 1780 bilingual Hebrew and German poem in honor of Empress Catherine II of Russia!
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#HoughtonLibrary #Satin #PrintingOnFabric #Bling
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Not in Kansas Anymore

Here's this friend of Dorothy in his original context (waaaay up at the top)! This enormous poster on fabric has a strong aversion to the pope!
Still #HoughtonLibrary

Carry On, Conclave

No white smoke yet, so here are some well-dressed Cardinals and other red-wearers from an extraordinary set of prints with fabric inserts at #HoughtonLibrary!

Amazing (and huge!) genealogy of the kings of Sicily and Cyprus in a Riant manuscript at #HoughtonLibrary. And the curatorial files suggest that no one has published anything on it in 100+ years!

Pleased to have been officially welcomed as a #houghtonlibrary #houghtonfellow for Spring 2024! Here is an amazing reuse of parchment in MS Riant 80, an enormous collection of theological treatises from 15th century Germany

Statt eines Fotos der Widmung hat mir die #HoughtonLibrary ihr Exemplars des #Privatdrucks von #Reigen von #ArthurSchnitzler (»für Leo Feld«) digitalisiert. Die Bibliothek teilt mir mit, dass man damit alles machen kann. Ich lade es also hoch: archive.org/details/schn...
#openSource

Now, he said, although I am not allowed to quote him, naturally, that
speaking from the point of view of the papers, the only place *it fits" is
Harvard! #HoughtonLibrary
#TheDolphinLetters25
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Thanks to @houghtonlibrary for access to this image. They have the original which you can find here:
nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.H...
Call Number: AC85 M4977 Zz846h

#melville #mobydick #hawthorne #moss #manse

Grateful for the chance to view precious letters from Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, & the complete manuscript of “The Quality of Mercy” (1891) from the Howells Archive at the Houghton Library. #williamdeanhowells #henryjames #edithwharton #marktwain #americanliterature #houghtonlibrary