greetings everyone! i am feeling a bit nostalgic today. a recent visit to my local thrift haunt made for a trip down memory lane. so...whatever happenned to ENCYCLOPEDIAS? don't get me wrong...i know there is wealth of knowledge available online but i can remember times spent flipping thru world books for info. call it "page surfing" WAY before there was such thing as the world wide web!
now, WAY before my time, 1902 to be exact as those seen {below},
encloypedias were what i would call a work of art! and the {3} i uncovered prove just that! you can see in the many lithos... {WOOF! below}
"font"astic credits page...{below}
and the beautiful edge decoration done in a marbled effect. {below}
not only for reference - they were created to be stately numbers standing proud on bookshelves everywhere! i bet you would be hard pressed to find a collection in many households today! but these {3} will continue to be appreciated by me. of course i was thrilled to see that i am forever a part of history in one of the volumes. ok...so not really me but my name at least! {below] sort of makes me famous in my own right!
and as the week flies by (this is leading into the dragonFLY except) {below}...
...i look forward to sharing with you the reveal or FINISH of my "start of something good" bathroom project! be looking for that post this friday! and until then take a minute or two to think back to something that my be gone (nearly gone??)...but not forgotten!
make it a GREAT day!
