Our copy of Clarence Cook’s The House Beautiful (New York, 1878) includes this gold-stamped illustration of a young woman reading on a chaise longue by a fireplace… #goals 

#MacroMonday

Cook, Clarence. The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks. New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1878.

Queen B! We found this royal insect in our copy of Charles Butler’s The Femininʻ Monarchiʻ, or The Histori of Beeʻs (Oxford, 1634), which was likely previously owned by Benjamin Franklin. #MacroMonday

Butler, Charles. The femininʻ monarchiʻ, or the histori of beeʻs. Oxford [England], Printed by William Turner, for đe author. M.DC.XXXIV. [1634]

Although this is a lecture admission ticket for anatomy and physiology, we choose to believe it is less about medicine and more about the love of bread. Exhibit A (image detail): heart meets bread. It’s a baguette right? Right?? 

Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). College of Physicians and Surgeons: admission to lectures on anatomy and physiology … Nov. 21, 1807; illustrated card engraved by Francis Kearny. 

It is a beautiful harbor, with billowy clouds, soft setting light, a ship on what looks to be a sandbar, and probably most importantly, a fluffy dog looking into your soul. What is this dog trying to tell us? 

Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, ca. 1736-1784 artist.  [Unidentified West Indian harbor at sunset with dog] [graphic], ca. 1763. 1 drawing: watercolor; overall 26 x 40 cm.(10 x 15.75 in.)

It looks like someone has a case of the #MacroMondays! This image is a part of a larger advertisement from 1880 for John Mundell & Co’s Solar Tip Shoes. See the entire image here. 

Wells & Hope Co., printer. John Mundell & Co.’s Solar Tip Shoes. Made only by John Mundell & Co. Phila. [graphic] Philadelphia, Wells & Hope Co.   [ca. 1880]. 1 print: chromolithograph; 84 x 54 cm. (33 x 21 in.)