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[Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, ads and beginning]

Description: Photograph of the inside of Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions. The front paper is blue and there is a thin black border around all the text. There are ads for "Gold Chains", "Sweet Opoponax", and "Wasteless Candles". There is also a list of other collections for sale from Chapman and Hall. The beginning of Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions begins on the right page.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, text and illustration]

Description: Photograph of an illustration in the Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. The image, which is illustrated by Robert Seymour, depicts Samuel Pickwick standing on a chair to address the club members who are sitting around a dining table. A note beneath the image reads "Mr. Pickwick addresses the club. / London, Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand." The book is propped open on a book cradle and there is a white background and there is a clear strap holding down the left-hand pages. A portion of the cove… more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles & Seymour, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions. The paper is blue and there is a thin black border around all the text. It is a collection of eight stories from All The Year Round for Christmas. The upper right corner is stained and there are tears in a few spots.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, illustration and text]

Description: Photograph of an illustration in the Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. The pages on the left are held down with a clear slip-on strap. The image, which is illustrated by Robert Seymour, depicts Samuel Pickwick standing on a chair to address the club members who are sitting around a dining table. A note beneath the image reads "Mr. Pickwick addresses the club. / London, Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand." The book is propped open on a book cradle and there is a white background. A portion of the … more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles & Seymour, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pages of Joanna Southcott's Index]

Description: Photograph of the pages of a book titled "Index to the Divine and Spiritual Writings of Joanna Southcott" held by UNT Special Collections. The image is focused on the seam between the pages and the fraying and stains there. The text is set up on each page with dotted lines following phrases and leading to the page numbers they occur on.
Date: October 3, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mary Barton, Anne Thackeray signature]

Description: Photograph of Anne Thackeray's signature on the title page of the book Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell. The page reads "Collections of British Authors Vol. CLXXXII/Mary Barton A Tale of Manchester Life/in one volume." A portion of a blue stamp is at the bottom beneath the text.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Illustrations in "La Creación"]

Description: Photograph of a page from a book titled "La creación: historia natural" held by UNT Special Collections. There is an illustration and two columns of text on the page. The image is a side-profile of a woman wearing a fur coat over cloth material. She is also wearing a headdress with a material similar to chain mail. It has a loop underneath her chin that is pinned to the side of her headdress. Her hair is braided beneath it. Image 2, a colored illustration of two people in a tiled open air room … more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Printing for the Blind In "American Encyclopædia of Printing"]

Description: Photograph of pages of a book titled "American Encyclopædia of Printing" held by UNT Special Collections. The left page of the book has two columns of text covering the history and background of the printing press and what they used when printing for the blind. The right page has a raised print with an explanation for the process and purpose of the print. There are three separate styles with definitive designs to aid the blind in reading through touch. Image 2, The page has a raised print with … more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cover and pages of "The Shame of Oscar Wilde"]

Description: Photographs of "The Shame of Oscar Wilde" held by UNT Special Collections. In the first image the cover is yellow and has a red border around the text. There is also a quote from Robert Burns under the title. Image 2 is the title page with a quote from Robert Burns, and information about printing. The yellow cover is visible past the pages. Image 3 shows a passage that reads "Issued for Private Circulation Only and Limited to 50 Copies on Japanese Vellum and Five Hundred Copies on Handmade Pape… more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pages clv-clvii in the book La creación]

Description: Photographs of three pages in the first volume of "La creación" held by UNT Special Collections. It is a Spanish translation of a series of novels by Alfred E. Brehm, a zoologist and illustrator who traveled the world investigating natural histories and working to establish what is now termed "scientific racism". Page clv has two columns of text and two illustrations titled "Cafre" and "Venus hotentote" both now recognized as offensive terms. Page clvi has two columns of text and two illustrati… more
Date: December 15, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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