Time to take a trip down bookish memory lane with this tag I found on Lila @ Hardcover Haven. Original Creator: Cari of cari can read where my lore started what’s the first book you remember readin…| The Corner of Laura
There’s a recent series of author biographies by Wiley called ‘The Life of the Author‘. They’ve got eight volumes out so far, with another on F. Scott Fitzgerald coming in December this year, and lately I’ve been reading their volume on Milton. The Life of the Author: John Milton (2021), by Richard Bradford, is split […]| Death is a Whale
It’s Valentine’s Day 2019. Honestly, do you really need this intimation from us? Nope. Look around you, everyone is gripped by Valentine’s Day fever. Markets are flooded with greeting cards, flower bouquets and soft toys. People are buying roses and heart-shaped balloons for their loved ones. | The League of Austen Artists
Thomas Bewick was the finest of all English practicioners of wood engraving and was the first person to make the work of the illustrator as important, in books for children, as the text. Born in 1735, in rural England, Bewick early on showed his skill in draftsmanship by covering the hearthstones of his home with chalk drawings and filling the margins of his school books with penciled sketches. At age 14, he was apprenticed to an engraver in the town of Newcastle and later joined his master a...| Recess! Media
