Here is a nice set of book illustration from Italian illustrator Andrea Musso. It's clear. the more you read the more the world opens up. Some more book photos here and while we are talking about people named Andrea Musso don't miss Music on My Moleskin series portraits of Jazz musicians. Correction: in the original post I got my Andrea Musso's mixed up! Apologizes to both.
The Book Fool: “Depicting love, folly, use and abuse of books in a grotesque manner”
In 1934 the folks at The American Book Collector saw these images in an issue of the German magazine for book lovers, "Zeitschrift for Bucherfreunde." They quickly wrote to the German publisher and received permission to reprint the images which they did as a supplement to The American Book Collector titled The Book Fool: Bibliophily in Caricature. "Depicting love, folly, use and abuse of books in a grotesque manner" the supplement merely scratches the surface of book imagery from just after 1500 to the middle of the nineteenth century. Enjoy the slideshow.
Mapping a Literary City
Using turn of the century maps of London as a jumping off point the designers of Dorothy devised this literary street map. The map features "over 600 books from the history of English Literature (and a few favourites from further afield)" It also features a handy A-Z key listing all the books featured along with the author's name and the date first published. They are offering 2 versions of the map: A limited edition 4 colour litho print on 120gsm Keaykolour China White uncoated paper or an open trade edition. I want to live on Charing Cross Road near the bookshop :-) Images courtesy...
Printed Books or E-Books? Either way “nothing beats a good book”
Please read aloud to the young ones
Infographic courtesy of ReadAloud.org