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[All the Year Round, beginning of book]

Description: Photograph of the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities in Volume I of the compiled version of Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. At the top of the page is a quote that reads "'The Story of our Lives from Year to Year.' - Shakespeare". On the left-hand page is the end of the volume's table of contents.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Don't Fence Me In" artist book from above]

Description: Photograph of a handmade miniature book featuring the first line of a Cole Porter song. The book is opened and the pages are connected accordion style. They have red text along the top of each page. The covers are made from ponderosa pine and the front has a stamped leather piece of a rider on a bucking horse.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[All the Year Round, cover and spine]

Description: Photograph of the cover and spine of All the Year Round, volume 1. It is bound in cloth with an embossed cover and spine. There is gold-stamped lettering on the spine that reads "All the Year Round. Vol. I. Conducted by Charles Dickens. --- 5/6." The book is propped up in a white book stand.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walter Crane's 'Faerie Queene']

Description: Photograph of an edition of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' that is illustrated by Walter Crane. The book is open to an illumination and is resting on a cradle made of two wedges. The image depicts a woman on her knees in the midst of several men in armor and holding swords and shields. A short portion of writing is included below and designs decorate the border.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Dump House" art piece]

Description: Photograph of a "Dump House", folk art piece. The structure resembles a small shack with a red tin roof and white-painted wooden planks serving as the exterior wall. Broken items and small signs and advertisements decorate the house. There are pieces of dolls, small bottles and a bell on the piece.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Idylls of the King, cover and spine]

Description: Photograph of the cover and spine of Idylls of the King. The cover is green cloth and has a frame detail and vine scroll-work on the front. The spine is brown and has five compartments and the title is applied in gold-stamp in the second compartment. The top and bottom of the spine is fraying. The book is resting on a clear book stand.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Tennyson, Alfred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Penny wooden doll from side]

Description: Photograph of a penny wooden doll sitting in a small wooden chair with a woven wicker seat. The doll has a dark skin-tone and is dressed in layers of patterned fabric. The face is painted on and includes, eyebrows, eyes, and a mouth with teeth. There is a nose protruding from the face and the arms have a screw in the shoulder allowing them to be moved and positioned.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A Christmas Carol, title page and illustration]

Description: Photograph of the title page and accompanying illustration of A Christmas Carol. The illustration is a color depiction of the Christmas ball and is titled "Mr. Fezziwig's Ball" with a signature just beneath the image and "London, Chapman & Hall. 186, Strand". The title page is in blue and orange and reads "A Christmas Carol . In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. by Charles Dickens. With illustrations by John Leech. Fourth Edition/London : Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand." The book is propped… more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles & Leech, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Errata and Chapter 1]

Description: Photograph of the beginning of Chapter 1 in the Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. A list of corrections is on the opposite page and is titled "Errata". The print on the cover is decorated with a red, blue, white, and orange marbled print. The book is propped open on a clear book cradle and a clear band is holding down the left-hand pages.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 20, 1749, Article 1]

Description: Photograph of the first article in Benjamin Franklin's 'The Pennsylvania Gazette', published on April 20, 1749. The piece reads "Continuation of the General and Definitive Treaty of Peace, begun in No. 1053 of this Paper. Article I. There shall be a christian, universal, and perpetual peace, both by sea and land, and a sincere and inviolable friendship between the high powers before mentioned..." Part of the second column is also visible.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sue Parks, Julie Judkins, and Cathy Hartman at Dickens exhibit]

Description: Photograph of (L-R) Sue Parks, Julie Judkins, and Cathy Hartman, the assistant dean of UNT Libraries, at the reception for UNT Special Collections' Fall 2014 exhibit about the Vann Victorian Collection. Parks and Judkins are both holding refreshments. Behind them is a window and two very full bookcases.
Date: October 21, 2014
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Personal History of David Copperfield, illustration]

Description: Photograph of an illustration from The Personal History of David Copperfield. The scene depicts Copperfield in the home of the Peggotty family. Mr. Peggotty is pouring out some hot water for Copperfield and the children and women are gathered around a table. Under the illustration is a note that reads "I am hospitably received by Mr. Peggotty."
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles & Browne, Hablot Knight
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Oil Well" windmill fan]

Description: Photograph of the windmill fan and details at the top of a whirley-gig folk art piece. It is a scene depicting a man, with a hat and dressed in a red shirt and blue overalls, holding a metal piece that connects to his car. The car is black and has red wheels. On the end opposite the car are four fan blades that are painted red and white.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[All the Year Round, Vol 1. cover and spine]

Description: Photograph of the cover and spine of All the Year Round, volume 1. It is bound in cloth with an embossed cover and spine. There is gold-stamped lettering on the spine that reads "All the Year Round. Vol. I. Conducted by Charles Dickens. --- 5/6." The book is propped up in a white book stand.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Strayed Reveller, spine and cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover and spine of The Strayed Reveller. The cover is green cloth and has a border detail and nature designs on the corners. The spine has five compartments and the title is applied in gold-stamp in the second compartment. The top and bottom of the spine is coming apart and part of the title compartment is pulling up. The book is resting on a clear book stand.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Arnold, Matthew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[All the Year Round, A Tale of Two Cities first page]

Description: Photograph of the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities in Volume I of the compiled version of Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. At the top of the page is a quote that reads "'The Story of our Lives from Year to Year.' - Shakespeare". The book is propped open on a book cradle against a white background.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Strayed Reveller, title page]

Description: Photograph of the title page of The Strayed Reveller. The page reads "The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems./By A./London : B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street. 1849." The portion of the cover that is visible is green and at the base of the book the edges are frayed. The book is resting on a book cradle and the pages on the left hand are held down by a clear strap.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Arnold, Matthew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Life of Charles Dickens, title page and illustration]

Description: Photograph of the title page (right page), and accompanying illustrated portrait of Charles Dickens (left page), from the book The Life of Charles Dickens. The book was written by John Forster with the approval of Dickens and was originally printed from 1872-1874 as a series of volumes. The title page reads "The Life of Charles Dickens: a great Englishman. By John Forster/With Thirty-two Illustrations/London/Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Henry Frowde/New York: Oxford University Press American Br… more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Forster, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Tree" artist book back cover]

Description: Photograph of the back cover of a handmade miniature book featuring the work of John Muir, a piece titled "Tree". The inner pages, not visible in this picture, were made by Donna Thomas, and the book is bound in leather and wood from Peter Thomas. The leather clasps on the book's fore-edge are held shut with a stick.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A guest, Dr. J. Don Vann, and Kevin Hawkins at Dickens exhibit]

Description: Photograph of (L-R) an unidentified guest, Dr. J. Don Vann, and Kevin Hawkins, the Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication & Interim Copyright Librarian at UNT Libraries, at the reception for UNT Special Collections' Fall 2014 exhibit about the Vann Victorian Collection. The three appear to be having a conversation and behind them many other guests are visible.
Date: October 21, 2014
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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