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Pictures, text and page images from “The Entirely New Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom, 1905” by Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford and Addison Miznerr. I bought my copy of this little book in Olivia’s Books in Picton, Ontario. It is out of copyright.
Title: The Cynic’s Calendar
Published by: Paul Elder and Company
City: San Francisco
Date: 1905
Total items: 10
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/wm/big/001-January-detail-Border-q75-98x200.jpg "[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau border]")
Page detail: Art Neuveau border
A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull. [more...] [$]
![[picture: The First Monday]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/wm/big/051-The-First-Monday-q90-202x200.jpg "[picture: The First Monday]")
![[picture: 1.---January Week 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/wm/big/001-January-q75-149x200.jpg "[picture: 1.---January Week 1]")
![[picture: Frontispiece: Jester and Monk]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/wm/big/000-3-Frontispiece-q98-139x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: Jester and Monk]")
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![[picture: The Well of Knowledge]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/wm/big/011-Knowledge-Her-Welle-q93-210x200.jpg "[picture: The Well of Knowledge]")
