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| | Description | Featuring over 1,500 engravings that originally graced the pages of Webster's dictionaries in the 19th century, this chunky volume is an irresistible treasure trove for art lovers, designers, and anyone with an interest in visual history. Meticulously cleaned and restored by fine-press bookmaker Johnny Carrera, the engravings in Pictorial Webster's have been compiled into an alluring and unusual visual reference guide for the modern day. Images range from the entirely mysterious to the classically iconic. From Acorns to Zebras, Bell Jars to Velocipedes, these alphabetically arranged archetypes and curiosities create enigmatic juxtapositions and illustrate the items deemed important to the Victorian mind. Sure to inspire and delight, Pictorial Webster's is at once a fascinatinghistorical record and a stunning jewel of a book. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | John M. Carrera | | Hardcover: | 512 pages | | Publisher: | Chronicle Books | | Publication Date: | July 29, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0811867188 | | Product Length: | 7.56 inches | | Product Width: | 6.02 inches | | Product Height: | 1.77 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.99 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.4 inches | | Package Width: | 5.8 inches | | Package Height: | 1.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 25 reviews |
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23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Wonderful images from my childhood, still wonderful Nov 29, 2009
By Robert C. Ross
In the 1940s I attended a country school with a single teacher and 20 kids ranging from first to eighth grade. During the last four years, I was the only kid in my "class" and was permitted (encouraged?) to do a great deal of independent reading.
Once a week the county superintendent would send around a circulating box of books, and I would often read and report on ten to twenty books a week. These reports were sent to Jefferson, the county seat, and if the superintendent approved, he would send back a certificate with a gold star for each book read, a total of 12 to each certificate. During my most productive year, I read and reported on 365 books, and received 30 certificates filled with stars, and a letter of commendation containing the five extra stars.
My teacher had me sit right next to the "New International Dictionary", which contained over three thousand pages and had a much shorter "History" with chronologies of various events from different countries. I loved checking the meaning of new words, and often just paged through both books, usually looking at the pictures first, then picking one word and listing all the meanings in a journal I kept for the purpose.
I've still got several of those early journals and I see that I made a few crude drawings based on the pictures in the dictionary. The words have become a part of my vocabulary but the pictures lived on in my imagination, many of them with a life of their own.
I was absolutely delighted to find this wonderful book of images. Some of them are a bit fuzzy and unclear, but the pages of the big dictionary were printed on a very thin paper and coal dust from the school's furnace smeared the pages and many of the images. Paging through this volume brings back many memories, even a sense of actually being back there in Joeville Country School.
This book contains so many personal meanings I'm not sure how to recommend it to others. I'm pretty sure others will find looking through the images will be a fascinating journey of discovery. It was for me many years ago, and still is today.
Robert C. Ross 2009
29 of 31 found the following review helpful:
It's a book for EVERYONE! Aug 04, 2009
By F. Barnard
"F. Barnard"
I purchased originally for my dad... but when it arrived my wife and I got it and realized THIS was a book we could gift to EVERYONE...the boss, the inlaws, grandma, families with kids who can't read... you can't go wrong. Pictorial Websters "tells the story" of times gone by via pictures--it's cool to flip the pages and explore! Then we searched and found the matching stamp set (for my wife's scrap-booking friends) and the Flash Cards (for our friends with kids) and now the holiday shopping is complete! Very cool idea that is timeless!
18 of 22 found the following review helpful:
A work of love and genius Aug 30, 2009
By alisa
The book is called a Dictionary of Curiosities, but when I think of it, I call it a Dictionary of Visual Poetry; Every page represents an endless possibility for simultaneously forming visual, verbal, and sensory connections between the images themselves, the external and internal universe of the viewer, and the flow of time. The most prominent force behind the book is love. The evidence of the incredible love and respect towards each tiny image is fully evident in every gorgeously printed line, in the intricate labeling and positioning of the pictures and a prominent space each picture has on the page. These engravings could not have found a more skilled, masterful and knowledgeable person to work with them than the creator of the book. The second force is the combination of the intellectual integrity and universal accessibility which places this book in a unique realm where it can be read on every conceivable level of ability, academic erudition, historical knowledge, artistic prominence, and appreciation for the beautiful and the wonderful. The contents of the book infiltrate one's imagination, ask and answer questions, make connections, teach and inspire.
When I hold this book in my hand, I feel like it's a miracle child of commitment, hard work, luck, providence and love. It is a special, special collection of pages.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Illustrating a way of communicating Feb 03, 2010
By John Matlock
"Gunny"
Dictionaries use a style of illustrations that all of us immediately recognize. These drawings were designed to illustrate words in the dictionary and were designed to convey information to the reader by assisting in the description of the word.
The illustrations in this book came from the original engravings that had been given to Yale University by the Merriam-Webster Company. Mr. Carrera has cleaned and restored the more than 1500 engravings and now presents them in the form of a bound book.
The result is a fascinating book that presents something that can be viewed as a historical link to our past, or simply as art in its own right. It's a book that you pick up and flip through the pages until you realize that you've spent an hour or two just looking, with perhaps just a bit of learning.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Childhood Dream Come true Oct 16, 2009
By vladb
"vladb"
I remember leafing through an inches-thick dictionary years ago, and wishing there was some kind of extract with just the animal pictures. Lo and behold, here it comes! This book contains not just the animals, of course, but most of the illustrated entries (just picture and caption) of the original Webster's. You can even compare how certain visual concepts changed over the years, as sometimes the illustration for the same entry from different editions are included. Sure to delight all ages, especially those drawn to older graphic arts - try a guessing game where the caption is covered up and the subject of the picture needs to be identified.
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