Though this rare botanical specimen looks much like a Dr. Seuss plant , it   is actually an 18th century roman candle masquerading as a po...

As promised, I present the companion book to "The History of Printing", featured in my previous post; "The Story of Paper...

A young Albert Maertens of Seattle made this book on The History of Printing for Miss Levine's class assignment in 1930. I found th...

Snowflake lettering as decorative as the ice crystals themselves.       Snow-flakes, A Chapter From the Book of Nature  was first publishe...