Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

Here is a unique find from the stacks - Our Sweetest Music: By the World’s Greatest Composers. This book is a salesman’s dummy, which has numerous specimen pages and illustrated sample covers for Our Sweetest Music, Happy Days, Sports and Pastimes for Boys and Girls, Our Animal Friends in their Native Homes, Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, Pilgrim’s Progress, and Poems for Childhood; with publisher’s prospectus tipped in at each title. This book was published in 1903.

xZ1033 D85 O9 1903

-Lindsay M.

The cover on this 1851 copy of The Odd-fellows offering is so striking! It may look a little rough around the edges, but the inside still displays some vibrant illustrations. There is even some metallic gold detailing, that unfortunately is not properly captured by the camera.  

xAY11 O3 1851

-Lindsay M.