Adventures in Packing: Vintage Illustrations

Here are some illustrations from my collection of vintage books...I decided to catalogue a few of these before I boxed them up.  Feast your eyes folks!

King Lear and Cordelia - Shakespeare

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Midsummer Page 1

Midsummer Page 2

Adventures in Packing: The Most Prized Book in My Collection

After packing up my regular hardcovers and paperbacks it became time to delve into my antique book collection.  While I love many of these musty novels my favorite vintage book is Talks to Girls by E. A. H. (Copyright 1891).

Not only is the cover pretty, the inscription says:

This little book is dedicated to LULU, 

who once said that she wished I "would 

write a book on purpose for girls and

for nobody else," by her friend E. A. H.

STILL, the biggest reason why I love this book: it has been passed down to the first-born girl in my mother's family since my great-grandma Katie!

Stay tuned for more "Adventures in Packing" - get ready to nerd-out tomorrow at the illustrations from my vintage book collection!