Life [or something like it]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

Here are a few delightful wood engravings from a recent gift showing the various processes that go into binding a book. This little pamphlet is entitled A Short History of Bookbinding and a Glossary of Styles and Terms Used in Binding … .printed in London at the Chiswick Press for the bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf in 1895.These images were probably printed from metal plates that were made from the original wood engravings. The engravings are not attributed, as was the case for most commercial engravings.

Click or tap on the images to see the definitions for these activities as provided in the booklet’s glossary. 

margaret atwood

the brontës (the complete works is a MASSIVE file fyi)

anne carson

hélène cixous

bell hooks

clarice lispector

audre lorde

virginia woolf

compilations

feminist theory

academic writing (both books and articles)

Enid: Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe.

PAINTED MUMMY PORTRAITS OF EGYPTIANS DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”

"the tired sunsets and the tired people-it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all".

"Side by side, they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing,

a correspondence of gesture which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid.

Their eyes were the same color of gray, intelligent and calm. She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.“

periculosum est solus ire! sume hoc.

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." - Old Man (The Legend of Zelda)

bellum. bellum numquam se mutat.

"War. War never changes." - (Fallout)

principissa nostra in alio castello est!

"Our princess is in another castle!" - Toad (Super Mario Bros.)

quid est homo? miserabilis acervulus commissorum.

"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets." - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

homo legit; servus paret.

"A man chooses; a slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan (BioShock)

lauda solem!

"Praise the sun!" - Solaire of Astora (Dark Souls)

homo congruus in incongruo loco omne momentum in mundo facere potest.

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world." - The G-Man (Half Life 2)

errator sicut tu eram, deinde sagittam in genu accepi.

"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee." - (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

nihil verum est, omnia permittuntur.

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." - (Assassin's Creed)

fatum terribile obisti, annon?

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" – Happy Mask Salesman (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)