that was a treat thx for posting
There’s so much great stuff over there. I’ve been picking things out of the air, to see if they’ve been digitized at archive.org - like William Blake, for instance, books with his drawings; and there are some, though they take forever to download.
And even though you can find much better reproductions of art on the web, and easier texts to read, there’s something kind of magical about seeing these old books in pdf, imagining who has handled and enjoyed them over scores of years, etc.
When I was a little kid, my favorite book was ‘Teenie Weenie Days’, by William Donahey; and they DO have one of the ‘Teenie’ books, reproduced beautifully (Warning: the PC-observant will just have to ignore the old-fashioned sterotypes, if they can’t resist judging the past by today’s standards):
https://ia800204.us.archive.org/28/items/teenieweenieneig00dona/teenieweenieneig00dona.pdf
-JT