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March 19, 2008:
Where the Book Ends and Art Begins
There's not a huge demand for lyric or ballad poetry these days, so at first glance it might seem strange that these two books are kept safely behind glass in our rare book room.
The poetical works of Richard John King or Adelaide Anne Procter are hardly well known, but these copies of their books are special. The fore-edges of each were painted in water colors before the gilt was applied. Here's the painting from the fore-edge of Legends and Lyrics:
King's Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland is a double fore-edge, with two paintings. Fan the pages to the left or right and the art work appears.
The practice of marking the fore-edge of a book dates back to the earliest days of printing, reaching its peak as an art form in the early 1800s. Books such as William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye were highly successful, and the idea of the "picturesque" in art and landscape became popular with those Georgians who had enough money and leisure to travel outside of the cities to sketch the views...
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A Curious Earth
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No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey
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Fup would later call those days she lived in Boring, "A great but troubled experiment. And probably the strangest six weeks of my life."
Bandit, right away, fell out of favor with other dogs. They didn't know what to make of him, so for a while he simply stopped going to the park. What did he care? He'd never met anyone like Fup. Let the stupid mutts snicker.
The cats, on the other hand... Once they got used to how odd a sight those two made — did they ever get used to it, entirely? Let's say, rather, once they stopped laughing at the sight of this huge, rough dog from the country fawning over an overeducated city talker like Fup — they agreed it might be the greatest boon of their lives: Fup arriving from Portland and right away turning the Twibels' shepherd into a one-dog army. It was as if they woke up one morning with their own Secret Service.
To protect, and to please — they'd have sworn Bandit never wasted a thought on anything else.
"Dogs are like beavers," Wiggums observed, "except they're always building someone else's dam." And, in fact, later that evening, Bandit gathered branches and brought them back from the woods, just because Wiggums asked him to.
The cats ate it up. They wished Fup had visited years before. They never wanted her to leave.
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