The Book of Accidents

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

. . . and Roll

MS 410               England, [15th century]
Indulgence Scroll (in Lat. and Eng.)
Parchment roll, 1515 x 165 mm., unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late fifteenth century.  Written and decorated area, 1391 x 141 mm.  Single bounding lines and guidelines for text (6mm. apart) ruled in lead. Written in gothic liturgical script in brown and red ink.

[For a full catalog description, see: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/beinflat/pre1600.ms410.htm]

Rock, Rock, Rock!

. . .  Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock!

Scenic postcards from the Beinecke Digital Image database:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado

 

Canopy over Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts

 

Pulpit Rock. Presque Isle, Lake Superior

 

Sugar Loaf Rock, Mackinac Island

 

Rooster Rock, Columbia River, Oregon

 

Witches Rock, Weber Canon, Utah

 

Arch Rock, Santa Cruz, California

Type Cast

Writers at their typewriters.
From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex

William Carlos Williams, 1940s

Eric Knight, [1942?]

H. L. Mencken, 1913

Rachel Carson, undated

Joseph Brodsky, undated

I.I.

Idiot International, a counter-culture magazine focusing on politics,
published out of London, England, 1970-1971 –
possibly related to the longer-lived French publication
“L’idiot international”, but the link is unclear.

 

 

The Peculiar Fish

A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]

Christmas in June

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.