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.
The Beautiful World of Botanicals
The desire to replicate nature in print has created some of the most desirable and collectable publications in the book world, as well as incredible developments in printing techniques. These have consequently often been adopted by artists interested less in botanical...
