One of the highlights of our Louder Than Words catalogue, The Girl Graduate’s Scrapbook, charts the life and career of Adah Margaret Ewing, from her time as clerical assistant to her father to Head of the Retail Book Department of J. K. Gill & Co., which by the early 1920s was the largest book distributor in the region and one of the most important bookstores in the US. The scrapbook is crammed with typed and autograph letters signed, shop correspondence, memoranda and greetings cards, flyers, manuscript notes, badges, photographs, etc. With it is Ewing’s reading journal, a small black leather-bound address book in which she has recorded all the books she read from 1906 to 1955. Notable authors include Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Sidney, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ida Tarbell, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, and Jack London.
America has John James Audubon; Britain has John Gould
John Gould (1804-1881) holds an important place in the history of ornithology and natural history illustration. He was a pioneering naturalist who collaborated with Charles Darwin, a taxonomist, publisher, and collector. His magnificent folio works, published over six...
