DE WEG DER BESCHAVING,Inleiding tot de Ethnologie



KAJ BIRKET-SMITH
AMSTERDAM-ANTWERPEN,1950

la música contemporánea, barcelona 1973                                                                                                                                     





once upon a time i went to Charleville-Mézieres to see where Rimbaud was born and i got a leaflet there....

 

map from a leaflet  ARDENNES FRANCE  édité par le Conseil Général des Ardennes, 1988  :

ROUTE RIMBAUD VERLAINES 

      

( WEBSTER'S NEW TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
UNABRIDGED, 1968)



Goethes FAUST II

Always nice : magazineclippings,hidden in a                                                      And their reverse...

frontcoverflap (!)

 







They were in a booklet : LES BRONZES DE SARDAIGNE, Nicola Dessy, 1955 :

Quite nice, these nuragheic bronzes, 800-300 BCE (nuragheic from nuraghe= a kind of stonetower in Sardinia.



 

 

 

 

 

 

from : THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

 BIRDGUIDE, (MCMLXIX)

 

 





hi, i
am blogging about the beauty of  papersheets attached to eachother at the left or the right, yes books,
cause i like books, so

for the beauty of frontendpapers(fep)*  see :  feppyfiësta

i also like maps with pictures, hence : maps with pictures

and  a special chapter for the art of the vignette : vignettefandango

also  for the art of the frontispiece** : frontispiecechachacha

ofcause a special chapter for the art of the cover :  covermerengue

o information, always nice! hence :  sheetcargoquickstep

and  i like marginalia, so : marginaliapogo

and halftitles**** : halftitletarentula

sometimes one finds nice things inside books : betweenthesheets

quite a nice read errata, hence : erratacancan

and  for the beauty of  bookspines : spinelambada








  

*         endpapers: the first (front) and last pages of a book, one of them glued to the inside of  the cover
**       frontispiece : illustration to the left of the titlepage
***     marginalia : something written at the margin of a page
****   halftitle : one of the first pages with only the title on it ( no author,publisher etc.)