andydraycott7

Jun 2, 20231 min

Mosaic, Pastiche or Bricolage? "Wrong" Illustrations 1

I've been spending a deal of time in the Huntington Library Rare Book Reading Room this last month. Looking for reader annotations mostly - there are very few, not too surprisingly in an elite collection. I've collected some images of illustrations along the way.

What's interesting is then the illustrations are "wrong."

Here's a first example from my own collection to start us off" George Virtue's 1850 London edition of PP Parts I and II.

See if you can spot the mistake:

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