This 56 page book of traditional childrens' fables from ~1900 with illustrations by the great Maurice Boutet de Monvel is online at the Library of Congress. They have enormous images available if wanted - hence, clicking the above images will give larger versions. Fulltable have an abbreviated set of english pages in thumbnail format. Also see previously: Vielles Chansons.
100 Years of Illustration on Maurice Boutet de Monvel, from last year.
And while on the subject of kiddywinks...
- Storybook England is a great site that maps childrens' classics (via Boynton)
- Mariana from Gatochy has been busy uploading portuguese childrens' book scans to a relatively new site, Histórias da Carochinha (see the September archives)
- Patricia from Agence Eureka has also been uploading some great scans to webshots.
- The russian LiveJournal KidPix site has an eclectic set of scans and links (hint: head for the links in brackets at the bottom of most entries)
Have you ever come across a book called "Slovenly Peter" - it's German, from the mid 1800's, and has great illustrations.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to see the cover, it's on amazon under "Struwwelpeter in English Translation" The author is Heinrich Hoffmann.
Thanks Sam, I posted the famous image from it a while back -- a year and 2 days ago in fact.
ReplyDeleteI'm about 84% certain the whole book is online but I have never actually gone looking for it...or I've just noticed it in my peripheral vision in passing.
I may have to add it to the backburner, unofficial, foreverchanging, written-in-thin-air, often forgotten list of things that passes (badly) for a future post plan. Or the other list - the things half remembered that I sorta think I should perhaps go looking for sometime when I have time or when I remember.
Yes, I could still do with a secetary.
Hey, you're right - I found it here, along with some other German kids books.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fln.vcu.edu/menu.html
Of course, these scanned images lack the aesthetically pleasing quality that many of your images have - on this site you can't see the paper the images were printed on.
Plus, the site has wonky navigation, and the images load slow.
great post great selections--thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention, PK!
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ReplyDeleteWow! I love the illustrations in this one. Very nice:)
ReplyDeleteCheers all!
ReplyDeleteSam, thanks for that site. It has (very) inadvertently led me to some weird old Japanese science books which *might* generate a post (see, this is how my haphazardness manifests).
Hi Paul
ReplyDeleteI've find for Sam "Struwwelpeter" in German and English version and good size picture , I'm sure to have see other version but where, where?this one on the great "fulltable" :
http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/s/str/s.htm
and here to :
http://www.digibib.tu-bs.de/start.php?suffix=jpg&maxpage=40&derivate_id=182
and a version with a girl :
http://www.digibib.tu-bs.de/start.php?suffix=jpg&maxpage=22&derivate_id=576
Patricia, I think you must work for Fulltable ;- )
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links - I thought Braunschweig Univ. would have it - that is probably where I saw it before.
i love you and your blog.
ReplyDeleteHeh. That's very kind of you to say so.
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