Illustration from: From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster / By Horatio Alger, Jr., New York :J.S. Ogilvie & Company, [c1882]
“Is it a story?” — “No, Daniel; it is the Constitution of the United States.”
The Book of accidents: designed for young children. New Haven : S. Babcock, Sidney’s press, 1831.
And it only gets worse . . .
Read the entire book online: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2013671
A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]
An illustrated writing sheet, printed in London,
filled out with an original Christmas poem
by a young girl named Rebecca Jane Mitchell in New York, 1807.
A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series,
written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark).
These copies were the author’s own, specially bound in limp suede covers.
and girls’ stunts.
From the diaries of Margaret Mellor.
Stacey Grimaldi, The Toilet, London, 1821.
The original issue of a book form that was popular in England and then republished in the United States in the 1820s.
A set of virtues is taught using illustrations of items found on a lady’s dressing table (the “toilet” of the title), each revealed with the lift of a delicate flap. This copy was the property of the author.
[Best white Paint]
[Innocence]
[INNOCENCE
"The silence often of pure Innocence,
"Persuades, when speaking fails."
"Innocence shall make
"False accusation blush, and tyranny
"Tremble at patience."]
New — An Interview with the Author: Tim Young on Drawn to Enchant (MP3)
Little girls with barbells!
Dogs using quill pens!
Odd looking men fishing for odd looking mermaids!
They are all part of the the world of Drawn to Enchant: Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection, a celebration of the collection gathered by one of the world’s most astute collector’s of children’s literature.
Artists whose works are represented include many beloved favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A. B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N. C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle.
From variant illustrations for Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are to little-known sketches for nineteenth-century periodicals that delighted generations of children, Drawn to Enchant offers a unique opportunity to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. Just as important, it invites each reader to recollect favorite images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood.
The book is officially released on October 15, 2007 and is available via the Yale University Press website: (in US at www.yale.edu/yup/ and in the UK at www.yalebooks.co.uk) and fine bookstores everywhere. Containing over 200 full color illustrations, it makes a wonderful gift for readers of all ages! [DISCLAIMER: Yes, this is a shameless plug for a publication by one of this blog's curators. But the book is *really* lovely!]
Frederick Burr Opper, illustration (watercolor on board) for The Jolly Gymnasium, undated, apparently never published.
Unidentified artist, illustration (watercolor on board) for Little Stories for Little Folks (McLoughlin Bros., 1890).
Gelett Burgess, “Fishing for Mermaids”, pen and ink with watercolor on paper, for The Burgess Nonsense Book (Frederick R. Stokes Co. 1901).
Young Gentlemen & Ladies Social & Temperance Society of Chester, CT.
A minute book of the organization, 1829-1841
complete with statement of purpose
And lists of members
However, if you fell off the wagon, your name was crossed out *and* you got the finger!
[Watch out for those Smith boys!]
A newly acquired pop-up/moving flap book (1946, World Publishing).
:
A scene with flap closed:
and opened:
And the last page:
[Unknown juvenile artist. Scrapbook of scenes from the lands of Browlia and Frowlia, ca. 1899]
The official postage of Browlia
One of many curious Browlian beasts - the Lizard of Horlon
A limerick about cats
Pierre LEGENDRE. Crackville. Paris. Ancienne Librairie Furne. 1898
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features new acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. This ongoing exhibition is curated by Tim Young, Associate Curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, and Nancy Kuhl, Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature. Additional information about these and other materials in the Beinecke Library’s collections can be found at the Library’s website: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/
