I was inspired by the masterfully twiggy rusticity of the lettering in my earlier post to find some (digital) bucolic beauties. Alas, this q...

Woodland Sketches composed for the Piano Forte, and dedicated [to] Madame-la-Princesse Marcelline-Czartoryska. (nee Radziwill) by Wm. Vincen...

Emilie Marie Bouchaud was born May 14, 1874, in Algiers (though " of pure French stock" she was quick to add). Arriving in Paris a...

For a brief moment I thought perhaps I should write a post about the new UK Space Agency logo or some other topical, relevant subject I...

During a trip to London some years ago, a friend took me for a walk along South Bank. This was before the Tate Modern opened and things were...

I hope I am not tempting Fate by saying that the Brooklyn brownstone I live in has been uncommonly free of the New York City pest trifecta: ...

 Silk screened dry cleaning posters showing hand lettering. Original designs, c. 1960 I went down to my unofficial deep storage in the base...