FoggyGates -A Bookish Blog

Two weeks spent watching World Cup Football on the widescreen in the Cataloging Cave left the Book Elves quite bitter about the fact th...

1881 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bird's Egg Protection Poster.  This represents a very early a...

Well, despite the best efforts of the Book Elves, another Bookin’! is ready to unleash upon an unsuspecting public. Their efforts includ...

An Ode, Sung by the Graduating Class of Dartmouth College, July, 1840.  Hanover; E.A. Allen, Printer: 1840. A 9-stanza song which be...

"Lines Composed for and sung at the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Marquis L. Holt" New Hampshire, 1864.  Marquis Lafayette ...

As the dark days of January give way to February’s ever-brightening afternoons, and weather-prognosticating rodents strut their stuf...

Art Deco Shipping (Luggage?) Label for the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Line. Paris: 1930s.  A label issued by the Norddeutscher Lloy...