Today’s coloring book page is a #bookplatespecial! This beautifully illustrated coat of arms is found inside our copy of New improvements of planting and gardening by Richard Bradley (1717). 

To download and print the full coloring book follow: https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LCP-COC-Portrait.pdf

[Bookplate] : Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732. New improvements of planting and gardening. Part 2. London: printed for W. Mears, 1717.

It is day two of New York Academy of Medicine’s 2019 #ColorOurCollections challenge. Today we have a sentimental trade card advertising the American Sewing Machine Company. 

To download and print the full coloring book follow: https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LCP-COC-Portrait.pdf

Please share your coloring with us!

J.H. Bufford & Co., printer. [American Sewing Machine Company trade card. [United States] [ca. 1885]

It’s that time of year again! Pick up your coloring tools and show us your creative side with Color Our Collections 2019! Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine in 2016, #ColorOurCollections has been a fun annual tradition with participants from libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world.  

Our first image is a book illustration showing two women gazing at a flower. To download and print the full coloring book follow: https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LCP-COC-Portrait.pdf

Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. The decorative sisters : a modern ballad. New York. : Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., [1881?]

Sometimes we pull the wrong book, but when we do we often discover something some of us did not know we had. Our copy of Details and Ornaments from the Alhambra by Owen Jones (1845) holds 41 beautiful chromolithographic plates. This video is just a sample. 

Owen Jones.  Details and Ornaments from the Alhambra.  London : Jones, 1845.

We were challenged by the American Antiquarian Society to post seven days of #bookcovers without explanation or review.

Day 7:

Proctor, R. A. The Expanse of Heaven: A Series of Essays on the Wonders of the Firmament. New York : D. Appleton and Company. 1889.       

We had so much fun participating in this challenge! Thanks for joining us!

We were challenged by the American Antiquarian Society to post seven days of #bookcovers without explanation or review.

Day 6:

Herbert, Henry W. The sportsman’s vade mecum. New York : Stringer & Townsend. 1850.

We were challenged by the American Antiquarian Society to post seven days of #bookcovers without explanation or review. 

Day 5:

Pinkerton, Allan. The Expressman and the Detective. Chicago : W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co. 1875.

Henry Wood, A Useful and Modern Work on Settees, Sofas, Ottomans, and Easy Chairs (London, 1846). Bequest of James Rush, 1869.

Have a seat! This collection of thirty colored plates advertised Henry Wood’s creatively ornate, seated furniture.

See this and more in our current exhibition: Stylish Books: Designing Philadelphia Furniture on display through April 26, 2019.

We were challenged by the American Antiquarian Society to post seven days of #bookcovers without explanation or review.

Day 4:

Keith, Alexander. New York : American Tract Society. 1833.        

We were challenged by the American Antiquarian Society to post seven days of #bookcovers without explanation or review. 

Day 3:

Beecher, Lyman. Views in theology. Cincinnati : Truman and Smith. 1836.