“Rhymes for Kindly Children” is subtitled “Modern Mother Goose Jingles.”  It is more blatantly geared toward teaching children proper manners, though, and even the titles reveal this end.  Children, of course, will not always embrace such obviousness, and perhaps this is why the rhymes themselves never became quite as popular as the traditional Mother Goose fare.   The illustrations are nice though, and especially of interest to any Gruelle fan.

I have placed some representative images below, all linked to the GALLERY.  The full list is viewable there.

Title: Rhymes for Kindly Children:  Modern Mother Goose Jingles
Author: Ethel Fairmont
Artist: Johnny Gruelle
Publisher: P. F. Volland Company
Date Published: 1916

Click a thumbnail to visit the gallery page for the image where it can be downloaded in many very high resolution sizes.

Albert's Pet Bunny

Bird Friends

Gathering Berries

The Adventurer

The Make-Believe Express

The New Bonnet

The Useful Cow

Three Little Hollanders

Bed-Time

If You Saw a Man With a Nice, Fat Horse

Kindly Children Learn to Love

The Harmful Hitting Habit

The Proud Mother

The Untidy Children

Woodroffe was a prolific illustrator of the period.  His work included a lot of Shakespeare, Bible stories, children’s books, and the like.

I have put the accompanying text with some of the illustrations.

The book, including lower resolution scans of these pictures, is fully digitzed HERE.

Title: Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare, Ernest Rhys (editor)
Illustrator: Paul Woodroffe
Publisher: The Guild of Women-Binders
Date Published: 1901

The Images below all link to the gallery where they are available for free download in many high resolution sizes of JPEG files.

YOU spotted snakes, with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy Queen!

Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg’d spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.

Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm
Nor spell nor charm
Come our lovely lady nigh:
So, Good Night, with lullaby.

IT was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o’er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye,
These pretty country folks would lie.

This carol they began that hour,
How that life was but a flower:

And, therefore, take the present time
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
For love is crown`d with the prime
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, -
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
- Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into, Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
Or dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy.
- Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into, Hey, nonny, nonny.

Come unto these yellow sands

Lawn as white as driven snow

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

When icicles hand by the wall

Full fathom five thy father lies

Take, O, take those lips away

How should I your true love know

Orpheus with his lute made trees

Detail 1

Detail 2

Detail 3

His illustrations here make a nice contrast to those of Virginia Frances Sterrett, who illustrated Hawthornes’ other children’s book derived from Greek mythology.  I have scanned and posted those images, from Tanglewood Tales, as well.

These images have been edited and enhanced to bring out the colors and remove some of the age toning.  The complete text as well as full page, unedited scans, are available at the Library of Congress web site, HERE.

Title: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator: Walter Crane
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Date Published: 1892

The Images below all link to the gallery where they are available for free download in many high resolution sizes of JPEG files.

Perseus & The Graiae

Perseus Armed by the Nymphs

Perseus & The Gorgons

Perseus Showing The Gorgons Head

The Stranger Appearing to Midas

The Stranger Appearing to Midas

Midas Daughter Turned to Gold

Midas with the Pitcher

Pandora Wonders at the Box

Pandora Desires to Open the Box

Pandora Opens the Box

Hercules and the Nymphs

Hercules and the Old Man of the Sea

Hercules and Atlas

Philemon and Baucis

The Strangers in the Village

The Strangers Entertained

Bellerophon at the Fountain

Bellerophon on Pegasus

Bellerophon and the Chimaera

Pyle (1853-1911) also wrote and illustrated classic retellings of other Arthurian tales as well as Robin Hood. He also authored original stories which he illustrated, along with many other titles such as He was perhaps one of the most influential children’s book illustrators, influencing such artists as N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover and others. The Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania, just north of Wilmington, DE has a very good collection of Pyle’s work along with those he influenced.

Title: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Author: Howard Pyle
Artist: Howard Pyle
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Date Published: 1903

Below are some representative image of the found in the Gallery. Each image is linked to a page where it may be downloaded in various sized high resolution formats.

King Arthur of Britain

Herald

Angel

Uther-Pendragon

Herald

Sir Kay breaketh his sword at ye Tournament.

Two knights colliding in a tournament. The both hold lances, and one lance has shattered. The knight falls.

Sir Kay showeth the mystic sword unto Sir Ector.

How Arthur drew forth ye sword

In the Valley of Delight

The Battle with the Sable-Knight

Excalibur the Sword

The Lady Guinevere stands holding a rose. Two mounted knights, perhaps jousting, ride near a castle in the background.

Two Knights do Battle before Cameliard

Woman with Rose: Decorative margin piece: A woman holds and smells a rose.

The White Champion meets Two Knights at the Mill

Four Knights serve the Gardener Lad - The "boy" sits at a table. Sirs Gawain, Ewaine, Geraint, and Pellias pour drink and bring food.

The Gardener Lad takes off his Cap - King Leodegrance and Guinevere discover that the boy is Arthur.

Arthur and Guinevere meet, as she steps form a coach or pavilion, attended to by knights, pages and servants.

Circular margin detail of a knight with drawn sword.

The Lady of the Lake stands with trees and a flying goose or swan in the background.

A woman writes or paints on a board in the outdoors.

The Enchanter Merlin sits a a table or desk and consults his big old book. It is illuminated and obviously of great magical importance. A magic ball lies on the desk, too.

An enchantress or sorceress (Vivien?) looks cunning and devious.

Vivien Bewithces Merlin

His trips, enforced vacations taken soon after his ordination as a Presbyterian minister, were dictated by what was apparently over-work, a mental breakdown, or some similar situation. In his words, an “attack on the brain first drove me from the haunts of men to seek mental repose and physical strength in the woods.” Whatever the reason, the book is seminal. He paints the mountains and the journey in the light of similar European tours historically taken to the Scottish Highlands or the Alps, and helps set the tone for the archetypal Adirondack tours and vacations that would follow. The routes he describe would be familiar to any later tourist, from the grand hotel vacationers of the 1890’s to the hikers of the current day. A lot of history has been made, and this is a great volume to help frame the very beginning of the era.

Chapters are written primarily in the form of letters, or a diary purporting to be sent to an acquaintance back home. In truth, much was written as dispatches to be published serially in the newspaper, and the book was put together later. Chapters detail the various settlements and regions he traverses, and he comments on everything from the life of the loggers to the imminent local extinction of the beaver (which was, indeed, destined to become extinct in the region only to be reintroduced 50 years later or so).

The book had a second edition in about 1854. The following review from the New York times is illustrative of the impact the book had almost immediately following its publication.

The Adirondack; or Life n the Woods, New and Enlarged Edition.

By J. T. Headley

Fifteen years ago Mr. Headley, in search of mental repose and physical strength, made his pioneer exploration of the then little known and less regarded region of the Adirondack. Since then the circulation of ten thousand copies of his vivid and spirited sketches of wild life has drawn general attention to the vast untrodden wilderness of New-York State, until what was then an enterprise to be undertaken with toil and labor, is now within the reach of every summer traveler. Ladies now visit the Adirondack country in considerable numbers, “and the white tents of their pleasant camps by the lake shore tend to enliven very much the solitude of the wilderness.” In this new edition are embodied the results of a recent tour rendered necessary by new explorations, which have opened new lakes and laid out new routes. Other than these, the actual changes wrought by time have been slight, and it still remains one of the wildest and most romantic regions on this continent. How long it will retain this character is impossible to say. Railroads are being pushed onward to its borders, speculators have their eye on its iron mines, lumbermen covet its forests. All, therefore, who would see the region in its pristine state of nature should hasten to visit it before advancing civilization had obliterated its peculiar features, and Mr. Headley’s volume will furnish everything that everything that is needful for a guide.

- The New York Times, August 15 1854.

There are eight very nice plates. Many copies have the plates missing, but I show here the (sometimes spotted and stained) plates from a copy of the 1849 Baker and Scribner first edition which I scanned. The book is available as a reprint, and both the first and second editions have been digitized by Google or various library collections. A later printing of the first edition is available (scanned) HERE.

Title: The Adirondack, of Life in the Woods
Author: J. T. Headley
Artist: “Inghan” and “Burt”
Publisher: Baker and Scribner
Date Published: 1849

The images are all available in the GALLERY.

The Adirondack

Lake Sanford

Lake Colden

Adirondack Pass

Lake Henderson

A Scene on Forked Lake

View on Raquette Lake

Lake Schroon

I have included two versions of most images. The paper and colors were fairly age toned, so I removed some of this. I tried to fix any color distortion or brightness issues, but I cannot say how well teh touched up images reflect the original state of the illustrations. The only copies I have seen have been similarly ages. Some images, such as the angel from page 115, I have posted in a few versions to reflect the colors brought out by different edits.

The edited full page illustrations I have posted at a much larger size than usual, 3000 pixels on the long side. I am not sure why. I guess I had them so I decided to put them up for folks to have.

There are a lot of margin details. I scanned as much as I could from various pages. Paul added intricate detail to almost all the pages, so there is a lot to work with in the book. Some have had edited versions added as well.

Below is a sampling. There is a lot more in the GALLERY for this book.

Title: La Vita Nuova (The New Life)
Author: Dante Alighieri
Artist: Evelyn Paul
Publisher: George G. Harrap / Brentanos
Date Published: 1916

Title Page

Page 9

Page 14

Page 27

Page 31

Page 43

Page 49

Page 59

Page 75

Page 83

Page 93

Page 101

Page 127

Page 137Page 144

Page 157

Page 165

Page 116 Detail - Zodiac Mandala

Page 115 Detail - Angel

Page 70 Detail - Two Men in a Garden

Page 164 Detail - Circle and Star Design

Page 111 Detail

Page 111 Detail - Unedited

Page 120

Page 135 - Madonna and Child

Page 5 Detail

Page 12 Detail

Page 37 Detail

Oldenburg’s images are not the highest quality. For about 20 euros they will sell you a CD of a title with higher resolution images, which is not a bad deal if you need (or want) them. Most books available for free online will yield usable images of between 800 and 1500 pixels, though, so many people will be perfectly happy with what is available. The images are dirty rough though, and need a lot of cleaning. I here have pulled the images from this 1876 guide to mushrooms. In the GALLERY I have posted two versions of each image: the original and then a copy I have played with to remove the age toning and brighten and sharpen th colors. The originals were not great, so the results are spotty and not great quality, but they give a good idea of what you can find in the Oldenburg archives if you root around. All are cropped to remove the waste area.

Remember, these are artistic renderings from a 130 year old book, so do not use the names or the pictures as a guide to what is or is not edible.

Title: Allgemein verbreitete eßbare und schädliche Pilze mit einigen mikroskopischen Zergliederungen und erläuterndem Text zum Gebrauche in Schule und Haus
Author: Wilhelm von Ahles
Artist: ?
Publisher: Schreiber (?)
Date Published: 1876

The full book is available at the UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG

Edited versions of the images are here in the GALLERY.

Following are a few samples of the images:

Agaricus arvensis

Agaricus campestris

Agaricus deliciosus

Agaricus emeticus

The entire text of the book (no illustrations) online at Project Gutenberg. Links to the the full text of the first 15 books in the Oz series are available through Gutenberg as well HERE.
Title: The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and Also the Strange Experiences of the Highly-Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump
Author: L. Frank Baum
Artist: John R. Neill
Publisher: Reilly & Britton
Date Published: 1904

All the images are available for download at full resolution in the GALLERY.

"Tip stood the figure up and admired it"

"The boy stretched himself upon the grass"

"'It's the fashion here,' said the soldier"

"'Don't you believe her, Your Majesty!' cried Jack"

"The Saw-Horse rocked and rolled over the fields"

"The faces looked upon the astonished band with mocking smiles"

"The Stranger removed his hat with a flourish"

"The mice hide themselves in The Scarecrow's straw"

"Seated within the throne was General Jinjur"

"This cast a gloom over the entire party"

"The Gump soared swiftly and majestically away"

"His axe fairly flashed among the jackdaws"

"Glinda searches the records"

"The Tin Woodman plucks the rose"

"The Griffin sprang through the wall of the tent"

"The Scarecrow as Royal Treasurer"

Title: Life and Death in Rebel Prisons
Author: Robert H. Kellogg
Artist: Various
Publisher: L. Stebbins
Date Published: 1867

The full size, high resolution images are all available for free download in the gallery. Each picture below links directly to the page for that image.

The Midnight Storm: Our Miserable Lodgings

Andersonville Stockade

Rebel Mode of Capturing Escaped Prisoners

Prisoners Receiving Rations

Hanging Union Prisoners

Break Away of the Stockade by the Flood

Plan of Hospital, Andersonville

Interior View of Hospital

Plan of Stockade at Florence

Hanging by the Thumbs

View of Libby Prison

Execution of Captain Wirz

Capturing the Responsible Party in the treatment of Union Prisoners

Smaller collections such as Michigan State University’s are often more focussed, and when you are lucky they even offer good sized images. I say “smaller” when in fact, to quote their website:

“The Map Library houses a collection of general and thematic maps and atlases for every area of the world. The collection consists of approximately 212,000 sheet maps, 14,000 folded geologic maps, and 4,000 atlases, gazetteers and other reference aids including wall maps, globes, CDs and Internet-accessible resources. The collection is especially strong in Michigan, United States, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, though all areas are collected at some level. Specialized collections include 19th-21st century Michigan county atlases and plat books; a small Braille map and atlas collection of U.S. states and continents; and Michigan Flood Insurance Rate Maps. The sheet map collection includes maps from the 17th to 21st centuries. A major portion of the sheet map collection consists of United States Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Defense products received through government depository programs. Many foreign topographic maps series are also collected, acquired by purchase and through Library of Congress map exchange programs. Other maps include foreign and domestic city and road maps, and maps from magazine subscriptions such as Petroleum Economist and National Geographic. Most supplementary maps from books in the Main Library are also housed in the Map Library.”

Too frequently when you discover a good archive all you can see are small thumbnails, or zoomable images which cannot be downloaded. Here though, although only a miniscule portion is digitized, those maps that are available are great quality and offered as a quick download in JPEG format as a link on the zoomable Zoomify Viewer page. This is the kind of user friendly map page that I wish more collections would offer.

I came across their Online Map Collection when I was cataloging and uploading my own African maps from various atlases. Following are some samples from their African collection. I have somewhat smaller images here, but on their site you can get them at their full scale.

Map of Africa, Mitchell 1867

Africa, J. H. Colton 1876

Afrique (Africa), Lamirault 1886

Afrika Politische Übersicht (Africa - Political Overview), Meyers 1892

Aquatorial-Afrika (Equatorial Africa), Meyers 1892

Ober-Guinea und West-Sudan (Upper Guinea and Wester Sudan), Meyers 1892

Algerien, Marokko und Tunis (Algeria, Morocco and Tunis - Tunisia), Meyers 1892

Agyptenin Darfur und Abessinien (Egypt Darfur and Abyssinia), Meyers 1892

Map of Africa, I. F. Andreevskago 1890

Map of Africa, I. F. Andreevskago 1890

Africa Population, J. G. Bartholomew 1913 / J. M. Dent & Sons

Africa Religions & Missions, J. G. Bartholomew 1913 / J. M. Dent & Sons

Africa - Political, J. G. Bartholomew / Meiklejohn 1922