1. Notes: 261 / 1 year ago  from oldbookillustrations
   

   oldbookillustrations:A bookplate for Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin

   Arthur Gaskin, from The yellow book vol. 9, London, Boston, April 1896.

   (Source archive.org.)

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   • a. gaskin
   • bookplate
   • yellow book
   • 19th century
   • victorian
   • england
   • periodical
    
2. Notes: 582 / 1 year ago  from tuesday-johnson
   

   tuesday-johnson:ca. 1880, [portrait of a woman with binoculars, showing off her luscious locks at the “beach”]

   via the International Center of Photography

   Happy New Year, everyone!

   • Tagged:
   • vintage
   • antique
   • hair
   • beach
   • photography
   • tintype
   • victorian
   • portrait
    
3. Notes: 77 / 1 year ago  from dulltooldimbulb
   

   dulltooldimbulb:Cabinet Card Photograph collection Jim Linderman

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   • Long Hair
   • Vintage
   • Victorian
    
4. Notes: 398 / 1 year ago  from oldbookillustrations
   

   oldbookillustrations:a lady reading.

   After a pen-and-ink drawing by A. K. Womrath, from The Savoy vol 3, London, 1896.

   (Source: archive.org)

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   • savoy
   • periodical
   • england
   • 19th century
   • victorian
    
5. Notes: 408 / 1 year ago  from oldbookillustrations
   

   oldbookillustrations:

   Ay, in the very temple of delight
   Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine.

   Robert Anning Bell, from Poems by John Keats, London, New York, 1897.

   (Source: archive.org)

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   • r. a. bell
   • j. keats
   • poems by john keats
   • england
   • victorian
   • art nouveau
   • romantic
   • 19th century
    

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