Dr. Julie Park whose lecture is linked is the Paterno Family Librarian for Literature and Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is also the editor of the Penn State History of the Book Series at Penn State University Press.
I remembered reading the chapter " 'Abuses Stript and Whipt' " in A. Edward Newton's "This Book-Collecting Game", 1928, and re-read it. It culminates in a narrative by Frank Deering, a correspondent of AEN's, about his own extra-illustrating. Holbrook Jackson of course also has
a chapter "Part XXVIII" on the subject, pp 575-582 in the recent U of Illinois edition (I have the 1930 Soncino and 1950 Faber editions and they probably have similar paging)
The effort of creating an extra-illustrated book had to be tremendous. I see today's counterpart more as Pinterest than Wikipedia.
My bookplate features "a conversation" as I like to imagine books in dialogue, comparison,creoss-reference etc. with each other. On that note, inserting clippings, reviews, or picture postcards is as close as I can get. I enjoyed inserting a thin newsprint review of a book from TLS or other newspaper, but today's analogue might be printing the review off, onto Office Depot printer paper, which is too heavy for insertion.
I had never heard of this, but I once acquired a copy of a book on South African birds with extraneous pictures pictures pasted into it. This was an "album" edited by Dr Austin Roberts, author of the first comprehensive bird book about Southern Africa, "Birds of South Africa" and John Voelcker, The album, entitled "Our South African birds/Ons Suid-Afrikaanse voëls", had a quite substantial text in which rectangular spaces were left blank for bird pictures to be pasted in. The pictures came as small cards (3 x 2 inches) that were included in packets of cigarettes by two cigarette manufacturers. In my copy a child had pasted in other (non-ornithological) pictures to fill in gaps where the owner had not been able to obtain the necessary cards. The album now counts as Africana. When I later obtained another copy which had all the correct cards, I disposed of the "incorrect" copy, little knowing that this was an example of childish grangerization.
I never heard of this practice. How very interesting! Thank you.
The You Tube really explains it. I could never figure out how they did it before I watched it.
Wonderful post. I knew about these but never saw one. Thank you.
I would love to see the Bull Granger at The Huntington.
Dr. Julie Park whose lecture is linked is the Paterno Family Librarian for Literature and Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is also the editor of the Penn State History of the Book Series at Penn State University Press.
Thank you for this post.
I remembered reading the chapter " 'Abuses Stript and Whipt' " in A. Edward Newton's "This Book-Collecting Game", 1928, and re-read it. It culminates in a narrative by Frank Deering, a correspondent of AEN's, about his own extra-illustrating. Holbrook Jackson of course also has
a chapter "Part XXVIII" on the subject, pp 575-582 in the recent U of Illinois edition (I have the 1930 Soncino and 1950 Faber editions and they probably have similar paging)
The effort of creating an extra-illustrated book had to be tremendous. I see today's counterpart more as Pinterest than Wikipedia.
My bookplate features "a conversation" as I like to imagine books in dialogue, comparison,creoss-reference etc. with each other. On that note, inserting clippings, reviews, or picture postcards is as close as I can get. I enjoyed inserting a thin newsprint review of a book from TLS or other newspaper, but today's analogue might be printing the review off, onto Office Depot printer paper, which is too heavy for insertion.
Fascinating.
I had never heard of this, but I once acquired a copy of a book on South African birds with extraneous pictures pictures pasted into it. This was an "album" edited by Dr Austin Roberts, author of the first comprehensive bird book about Southern Africa, "Birds of South Africa" and John Voelcker, The album, entitled "Our South African birds/Ons Suid-Afrikaanse voëls", had a quite substantial text in which rectangular spaces were left blank for bird pictures to be pasted in. The pictures came as small cards (3 x 2 inches) that were included in packets of cigarettes by two cigarette manufacturers. In my copy a child had pasted in other (non-ornithological) pictures to fill in gaps where the owner had not been able to obtain the necessary cards. The album now counts as Africana. When I later obtained another copy which had all the correct cards, I disposed of the "incorrect" copy, little knowing that this was an example of childish grangerization.