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jessemlocker.bsky.social
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
Frontispiece of a book with a portrait of James I of England and opposit, a sleepy looking cat
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
marshslibrary.bsky.social
Galileo explaining the cosmos to the muses. The frontispiece from the first edition of his collected works, printed in Bologna 1655-6.
frontispiece to Opere di Galileo, showing Galileo pointing out heavenly phenomena to three women (muses), one holding a telescope
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
ghirlandia.bsky.social
Princess Badoura

Frontispiece from the Arabian Nights
1913

Edmund Dulac #FairyTaleTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
sailorfuncomics.bsky.social
The title page illustration for Act 4 reads "Sailor Moon Act 4 Happy USAGI S. Moon" at the bottom. The frontispiece for Act 5 says "Arashi no Yokan" ("Storm Brewing") at the bottom. Possible alternative titles for those chapters?
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
shmupdb.bsky.social
Appleseed 1 Large-Format Deluxe Edition (1990). Art by Masamune Shirow.
Color illustration by Masamune Shirow: Deunan Knute, blonde hair flowing and goggles on her forehead, sits relaxed in the open cockpit of a blue Landmate powered exoskeleton, one arm resting on the controls. Detailed mechanical components and warm orange watercolor background; created as the frontispiece for the large-format deluxe edition of Appleseed One.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
theul.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1600, Charles I was born.

This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.

London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
A woodcut of Charles I, which forms the heavily symbolic frontispiece to Eikon Basilike. We see Charles I kneeling, with light appearing to shine from his head. The crown in the upper right corner is inscribed with the words ‘beatam & aeternam’ (blessed & eternal), which is to be contrasted with the temporal crown at the King’s foot, ‘splendidam & gravem’ (splendid & heavy). He holds the martyr’s crown of thorns, ‘asperam & levem’ (bitter & light).
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
art.feediverse.org
Pablo Picasso, Seated Nude (unbound supplementary variant of frontispiece) from Contrée, 1943-1944 #museumarchive #pablopicasso
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
daveshootsbooks.bsky.social
The #illustrations in this #scarce undated #ChildrensBook indicate a #Japanese influence. #LargePrint #AsIs - #colour #frontispiece was separated and reattached with clear tape. $15. #Booksky #folklore #BedtimeStories #SlaveandHisGoldenEgg
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
samulmschneider.bsky.social
I was honestly surprised by how much it fascinated my high schoolers this year. We spent a week and a half or so on Hobbes and in our intro segment I spent like....three times as long on the frontispiece as I planned because they were so locked into it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
szabla.bsky.social
I suppose I can see it but how would you maintain it? what would you even call such a thing? some kind of...common wealth?
Hobbes' Leviathan frontispiece with laser eyes
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨 New post: How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part II, Bergpolderflat and the Prototypical Slab Block
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Frontispiece and inside line drawing illustration of Bergpolderflat from Yorke and Gibberd, The Modern Flat (1937)
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
joliebraun.bsky.social
Exciting new acquisition for RBML's Margaret Armstrong holdings: Western Wild Flowers (1915), which Armstrong researched, wrote, illustrated, & designed the cover. This copy has a bookplate indicating that its owner (Elena R. Goodwin) received the book as a Christmas gift in 1916.
Cover of Western Wildflowers by Margaret Armstrong shows beautiful art nouveau flower design in gold on maroon binding. Title page of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong. Frontispiece shows a color illustration of orange mariposa tulip. Bookplate of Elena R. Goodwin depicts cat facing a stack of books. "Redwood 1916, Xmas J(?) L R" handwritten at bottom.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
rodman.bsky.social
Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide, with annotations on the gimlet by Raymond Chandler.
Raymond Chandler's notes on the gimlet. Raymond Chandler's stamp on the frontispiece. Detail: Chandler's notes on the gimlet. Title page, Bartender's Guide, by Trader Vic.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
drkyliesmith.bsky.social
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
The frontispiece to a book that saysJim Crow in the asylum psychiatrist civil rights in the American South. Kylie M Smith. University of North Carolina press Chapel Hill”. At the bottom written in blue cursive is my signature and the words “my advance copy November 13 2025.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
📷 is a frontispiece from the latest issue of Antiquity © World Monuments Fund: www.wmf.org/journal-arti... 2/2

🆓 in our latest #AntiquityEditorial on archaeology in wartime: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Editorial: Archaeology in wartime
Editorial - Volume 99 Issue 407
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
A new Little Free Bakery near me. These have been popping up around Seattle, and now our neighborhood has two of them. Apparently the LFB movement started in Seattle's Magnolia Neighborhood.
#Photography #LittleFreeBakery #SeattleWashington #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A Little Free Bakery has been set up in front of a neighborhood house. The LFB, made of wood painted light turquoise blue, has a window door with white trim, three shelves (empty for now), and a peaked roof with the frontispiece painted blue with a dark blue maple leaf. It is set against a stone wall full of Oregon grape and autumn's dead leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
gregpriest.bsky.social
Charles Lyell was born OTD in 1797. L believed that geology could and should be made a Newtonian science: Just as “the fall of an apple ... assist[s] in explaining the motions of the moon,” so too “the laws of earthquakes ... throw light on the origin of mountains....”

🗃️🧠🧪 ⚒️ 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci 🐡
The frontispiece from Lyell's Principles of Geology (second American edition, 1857), showing a volcano and illustrating his theory of the contemporaneous origin of the different types of rock.
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
wokestudies.bsky.social
Children's Classic: The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame.
Pan. Cover of the first edition (with illustration by W. Graham Robertson) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, frontispiece to a 1913 edition by Paul Bransom
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
cmamedieval.bsky.social
Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 143v https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256.143.b
This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who painted the majority of the book's miniatures. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for the decoration of their borders, which typically feature a rich variety of realistically-painted flowers, birds, and butterflies. This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person-in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451-1504). Isabella's coat of arms embellishes the book's frontispiece. It is unlikely that the book was commissioned by the Queen herself; rather, she probably received it as a diplomatic gift from someone courting her patronage, perhaps Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. A Franciscan friar, Jimenez was dependent upon Isabella for his advancement, first to the post of Queen's confessor in 1492, and then to Archbishop of Toledo in 1495.
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
edpaintskrieg.bsky.social
Really pleased to get my hands on the special edition of Relentless Dead by Steve Lyons. It's a gorgeous book with loads of nice details. Without spoiling the story too much, I'm five chapters in and it takes the Krieg in new directions, putting them under pressure. Really enjoying it so far.
The front cover of The Relentless Dead by Steve Lyons, featuring a stylised black and white image of Krieg Korpsmen marching past with tanks in the background. A cool piece of artwork on the inner covers, showing Krieg troopers emerging from cover, with one gasmask equipped trooper in the near foreground. The frontispiece, signed by the author. A two page spread of a random page - there is a line of barbed wire running across the bottom of the pages.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
paulduane.bsky.social
I found what seems to be a signed copy of Francis Stuart's book Black List: Section H in a little Kinsale shop. He's most famous for having decided it was a good idea to work in Nazi Germany as a propagandist in the early 40s, and for marrying (and allegedly beating) Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud.
Frontispiece of book, text reads "KING PENGUIN BLACK LIST, SECTION H Francis Stuart was born in Australia of planter stock, was educated at Rugby and has lived most of his life in Ireland. As a young man he married Iseult, the daughter of Maud Gonne, and began to make his name during the twenties and thirties as a poet and novelist. He was interned by the infant Irish Free State for joining the Republican cause during the Civil War. A citizen of Ireland, he spent the war years in Germany, where he had been invited to lecture and to broadcast to Ireland. At the end of the war he was detained in Austria by the French occupying forces, pending the subsequent clearance of charges that had been made against him. Francis Stuart lives in Dublin." Below is a signature, Francis Stuart
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
charlescmann.bsky.social
Public health has drawn controversy since it began ~150 years ago, but the disputes have only grown more heated since Covid. Even though we unquestionably live longer and healthier lives than our ancestors, there’s so much discontent that we now have RFKJr.— 1/11
Illustration of the incredibly complex public-health system by Julie Wallace shows the empire of public health as a series of interconnected systems. It's the frontispiece of the article I'm going to plug at the end of this thread. Heh.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
bookshopghost.bsky.social
We meet again! This is the first edition of "Farm on the Hill" by Madeline Darrough Horn.

It's the fourth or fifth copy I've had in 20 years - common in this part of the country (the American Midwest) because of theme, local author... and illustrator.

Yes, the illustrations are by Grant Wood.
The frontispiece and title page of "Farm on the Hill", published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1936. The title page has a small, black and white block print of a hen on a nest. The facing page has a colorful picture of a boy standing in front of a milk cow. The cow has obviously just kicked over the bucket into which the boy was milking, because the bucket is on its side, and the boy's right sleeve and overalls are drenched and dripping milk.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
phillegitimate.bsky.social
Editor: You get that frontispiece for Leviathan?
Etcher: Sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12d
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
The sovereign megazord from Hobbes’ Leviathan
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
From Balthasar Staindl's 1547 cookbook, how to put various birds in pastries. It has eggs, lemons, onions, and bacon, what more could you want?

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/12/p...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #pastries
Frontispiece of the first (1547) edition of Balthasar Staindl's Künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch held at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. The image shows a woodcut of a richly equipped and busy kitchen. The master cook is standing to the left of the large masonry hearth, tasting the contents of a large cookpot stood next to the fire while a cauldron is suspended above it. Two men in the background seem to be addressing him. In the right foreground, another man is cutting meat on a work surface set up atop a wooden trough on trestles. Carcasses and a large sausage are shown suspended on the wall in the background. Everything about this image - the size, the range of equipment, the exclusively male staff, the amounts of meat on display - signals wealth. This is the kind of kitchen you would expect to find in the house of a rich burgher or landed nobleman. The motif recurs in many German cookbooks of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM