18th Century Spiders

This post on BibliOdyssey has some great insect and spider illustrations by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof

"August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759) was a German descendent of Austrian nobility and showed an early aptitude for painting. Following an apprenticeship with his artist-uncle and further study at the Academy of Nuremberg, Rösel obtained an appointment at the royal court in Copenhagen painting portraits and miniatures."

The above makes much more sense when flipped:

Here are a couple of my own spider portraits from my To Know the Spiders project:

Daily Book Graphics #300 / Theories of Film

©1973

Daily Book Graphics #300 / Red Flag

©1984 / Cover Design: Miriam Recio. Wow DBG #300!

Daily Book Graphics #299 / Playgroup

©1973

Daily Book Graphics #298 / Killer's Choice

This printing 1970

Daily Book Graphics #297 / Monkey on a Train

©1965

Daily Book Graphics #296 / Cinderella

©1966 / Dick Bruna Flickr group here.

Daily Book Graphics #295 / Film Experience

©1968

Daily Book Graphics #294 / Vertebrates: Physiology

©1980

Daily Book Graphics #293 / Making Your Own Music

©1971 / Cover: Leo and Diane Dillon

Daily Book Graphics #292 / Inflation

©1969

Daily Book Graphics #291 / The Martian Chronicles

25th Printing 1970

Daily Book Graphics #290 / Speedball Textbook

©1960, 1965 / Lettered by Raymond DaBoll / This booklet is a window into the way things were in the pre-digital world. Mad Men has had me thinking about this era in design production.

Daily Book Graphics #289 / Murder to Go

©1969 / Jacket Design: Lawrence Ratzkin

Daily Book Graphics #288 / Nachtigall des Todes

©1964

Daily Book Graphics #287 / On Art and Artists

©1960

Daily Book Graphics #286 / Rhodesia

This is an 800 page book published by the Federal Information Department of Rhodesia in 1960. Until now everything I knew about Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) came from Doris Lessing's novel the Grass is Singing and a chilling piece in The New Yorker that described the atrocities of the Bush War (1964-1977). This book was written to promote Rhodesia as a nation (technically it never became a recognized state), on the rise under white minority rule. Things did not work out. It's impossible to look at this book without being creeped out by the self-delusion that led the white Rhodesians to think that 280,000 whites ruling over 6 million non-whites was a sustainable arrangement.

Daily Book Graphics #285 / Assumption and Myth

©1966

Daily Book Graphics #284 / Die Rich, Die Happy

This printing ©1974

Daily Book Graphics #283 / Malignant Stars

I like the genre icons. ©1960 / Jacket Design: Sydney Butchkes

Daily Book Graphics #282 / Vasarely

Cover 1st page

Cover 2nd page

Cover 2nd page

This is a catalog for a Victor Vasarely show at The Pace Gallery October 9–November 3, 1965. It's a one-color job but they use a variety of paper stocks to make you forget that. Design: Total Color NYC

Daily Book Graphics #281 / Film:

©1969

Daily Book Graphics #280 / Divorced

©1977 / Design: Mike Stromberg

Daily Book Graphics #279 / Relaxing with Yoga

©1960

Lake Erie Brings the Drama

I took these iPhone photos yesterday at LaSalle Park.

Daily Book Graphics #278 / Gideon's Month

©1958

Daily Book Graphics #277 / Psycholinguistics

©1982