Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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18mo. Decorated Cloth, Gilt...
18mo. Decorated Cloth, Gilt...
Many tribes of Indians solved the difficulty of invention by simply thinking of the Great Spirit. In this way they thought they received directly from him inspirations to discover things. Among the Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...
Victorian Songs. Lyrics of the affections and nature. Collected and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett, with introduction by Edmund Gosse. 8vo. Printed on handmade paper, especially manufactured for the volume. Bound in white cloth, extra gilt top, with choice cover design...
Elizabethan Songs "In Honor of Love and Beautie." Collected and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With introduction by Andrew Lang. Printed on Handmade paper, with four headpieces in photogravure, twenty-one full-page photogravure plates, etched title, and fifty headings and tailpieces from pen-and-ink drawings. 8vo. Cloth, extra gilt...