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A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820:
NEW ESSAY — “The Color of Memory”, in which Grace Linden explores Albert Kahn’s spellbinding Archives de la Planète (1908 to 1931), a collection of more than 72,000 autochromes aimed at documenting and preserving the fast-changing world —
Clarence Leroy Andrews, “The Father of the Glaciers”, 1902.
One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post:
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in 1894, at the age of 44, the author Robert Louis Stevenson died. Ten years later a collection of excerpts from his writings was published titled The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson. Read it here:
