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#MarbledMonday: Here are some more marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Happy birthday to Charlotte Brontë! The Brontë siblings liked to produce miniature magazines for Branwell's toy soldiers, which may have led Charlotte to later write "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" in this tiny script on eight small sheets of paper. Many years later, the Miniature Book Society published "The Scale of Genius," which describes these little books and is bound in a facsimile of "The Secret." As you can see from the first picture, the text is almost exactly the same size in both!

The Scale of Genius: PR4169 .H37 2019

#MarbledMonday: And, to round out June, here is a last set of marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

#MarbledMonday: Here are some marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

A fine bird from Fine bird books, 1700-1900! You can find meadowlarks in parks throughout Columbia, but if you can't spot one in the wild, then you can always stop by Special Collections and check one out in this book!

As we head into the weekend, we've got a fun one for you: a rebound set of John L. Stephens' "Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan" (1841). The books have been rebound with fresh leather, but the binder kept the original cover with its distinctive stamp and pasted it onto the front pastedown, almost like a doublure. It's a nice way to remember what the book used to look like before the repairs.