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Front cover, Divers Proverbs This is a small book, obviously produced to look “quaint.” My copy also still has the rermains of the dust-jacket, which I have scanned seperately, and there are [...] [more...] |
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Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book The dust-jacket of the fac-simle had adverts on the front and back flaps for other books by Yale University Press, including There’s Pippins and Cheese to Come, Journeys to Bagdad, Les Trophées and The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. [more...] |
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Title Page, Proverbs DIVERS PROVERBS [more...] |
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Dustjacket: rear The back of this little book had adverts on the dust jacket for some other books produced by Yale University Press: three books by Paul Claudel, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to Brazil: The Hostage (L’Otage), The Tidings Brought To Mary: A Mystery (L’Annonce Faite À Marie), and, The East I know (La Connaissance De L’Est). [more...] |
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A scan of blank paper for use in backgrounds (public domain) 175x177 2K |
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A Burnt Child dreads the Fire 1204x770 122K |
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title page 1606x1027 315K |
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As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good 1205x770 241K |
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What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king. 1205x770 213K |
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I talk of Chalk and you of Cheese; Charity begins at Home; Cut your Coat according to your Cloth; What can’t be cur’d must be endur’d. 1204x770 152K |
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Curs’d Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance. 1205x770 156K |
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He who has a mind to beat a Dog will easily find a Stick; Naught is never in Danger; Faint Heart never won fair Lady. 1205x770 159K |
