The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...
Jim Naughten, “Sheep” (2014) (all photos courtesy the artist and Prestel unless otherwise noted) Natural history storerooms are a bit like drowned Noah’s Arks, with specimens from every realm of the ...
When the botanist Hewett Cottrell Watson finished reading a presentation copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), he could not contain his enthusiasm. “You are the greatest ...
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