Scrap
While I was sorting last night, I came across an older edition of George Eliot's "A Mill on the Floss." My guess is that it was from the 1870s. Inside I found all sorts of illustrations, but not from the original book. A previous owner had meticulously trimmed and pasted in dozens of illustrations, likely clipped from magazines and newspapers of the era. There were too many to photograph, so I put together a short video:
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Have you come across anything like this before? Seems like a very unique way to alter a book. A very cool find :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I actually have a little pile of them.
ReplyDeleteSomeone's life and soul lie between the pages! Very touching...
ReplyDeleteVery inspiring
ReplyDeleteHow utterly . . .odd. . . flowers and rifles . . .
ReplyDeleteMy reaction was the same as Sharon's: How very odd.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures don't even tell a coherent story.
I love it!
Do you sell those altered books?
I will occasionally throw one up on eBay or something, but they don't generally go for much, maybe $20-40
ReplyDeleteLooks like these are all images from mail order catalogs. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteYou may be interested in this link to a past exhibit at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. on "extra-illustrated" or "grangerized" books - apparently it was quite popular at one time
ReplyDeletehttp://www.folger.edu/Content/Whats-On/Folger-Exhibitions/Past-Exhibitions/Extending-the-Book/
It's so funny how illustrations of GUNS are interspersed with the pansies and the tomatoes! What a rich slice of life Forgotten Bookmarks are!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bob H., for the link to the Folger exhibition on grangerized books. In this example, the book seems to serve merely as an album, with no relation between the images and the text, or indeed among the images, as far as one can tell. Instead, it's just a record of the creator's interests, fixed (apparently) on flowers and firearms, and the occasional chicken.
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