Winged Victory

Sorry my postings have been a bit sparse. I'm in deadline crunch with no less than 6 projects all coming due at the same general time, and the stress is killin' me. Let me get through the next couple of weeks with some spotty (but neat!) stuff, and I'll make it up to ya.

Here's a nice bookplate, by Garth Jones, a great penman of the early 1900s. It was adhered in a Leon Uris book that I bought some years ago at a garage sale, and I have no idea if it belonged to THE John Knowles of A Separate Peace fame. That Knowles was born too late to have had Jones design it for him, but he could have easily had the design adapted for his use. Who knows . . . anyway, I think the winged victory filigree is lovely.

Raise the Barr

I really like George Barr artwork. It has an expressive sense of wonder that is so important to making fantasy stories come to life. The beautiful elven encounter below works so well with its decorative border.

Stroll through Mr. Barr's website by clicking here.

And below, a tip of the hat to Lew Jaffe at bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com for sending over this nifty bookplate, quite some time ago, in response to a George Barr post.

Books

I do so love books . . . but especially the old ones.

Ethel Larcombe — a bookplate reprinted in The Studio-early 1900s