PEAR TREE LOG
pear tree log: I started this blog to keep my younger son, Jonny, in touch with life in Lincolnshire, while he spent a year working in China. That year turned into five! Now he is home and training to become a physics teacher. This is simply a patchwork quilt of some of the things I enjoy - life in rural Lincolnshire, our animals, friends, architecture, books, the gardens, and things of passing interest.
£1,000 if not true!!
One of my most loved, seasonal books, is a leather bound collection of the Christmas editions of the Graphic Magazine dating from late 1870's through to the early 1890's.
George bought it for me, a number of years ago, and each Christmas season it comes out and I spend many happy hours trawling through it. I love the illustrations, the stories, the advertisements, everything about it really.
The colours have stayed strong and fresh even after all this time.
The advertisements are terribly old fashioned, woefully non-pc
so much so that I won't post the lower half of this one lest it offend...and that is Pears' Soap, for goodness sake!
OK, maybe it is Victorian sentimental mush, but if we can't be sentimental at Christmas...
The title of this post is taken from this Pears' Soap Advertisement, from the 1880's
Apparently, if you stare hard at the green circle for about 30 seconds and then transfer your gaze to the white circle you will get an impression of a pale pink circle with green lettering reading 'PEARS' through the middle.
I don't know whether they had to pay out.
beautiful pictures! love the colors. books..love them.
ReplyDeleteI love the colours! And leather bound books just have a wonderful feel about them.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda, I'm with you there - books are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHi Nilhuanwen, It is amazing how strong the colours remain - and it's a real delight to enjoy this particular one every year. I am hoping to introduce our grandson to it this year, little by little.
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